Peter Hartcher

A hidden announcement from the State Department about consequences for foreigners “complicit in censoring Americans” has sparked a new level of global interference not seen from America since the end of the Cold War. Peter Hartcher asks, is this the beginning of a new level of interference?

Never has a US president delegated the negotiation over a critical national interest to an American enemy. Yet we seem to be on the brink of exactly that.

From the Finnish president’s lakeside summer residence, Alexander Stubb tells Peter Hartcher what Australia can learn from Finland’s experience.

Due to a negative focus and social media, audiences are divided into warring camps. But there’s a solution.

The Albanese government has considered itself a friend of Israel. But Benjamin Netanyahu’s callous mistreatment of Palestinians has gone too far.

In an Australian exclusive, Peter Hartcher sits down with the freedom-fighting wife of anti-corruption campaigner Alexei Navalny who died last year while in jail.

Australia and America have drawn closer because of mutual anxiety and hostility towards Beijing. Like it or not, it was a good day for the alliance.

The critical minerals deal has thrust Australia into a position of power, sending a powerful message to allies and others: you can’t ignore us anymore.

In the 1997 movie Wag the Dog, the US president creates a fictional foreign war to distract attention from a sex scandal. Is life imitating art?

The Israeli president spoke about his controversial trip to Australia, the relationship between the nations, and what comes next for the Middle East.