The US' military intervention in Venezuela has opened the way to a prolonged and costly commitment, with potentially very high impact on US treasure, on political stability in Venezuela, and on the lives and security of people throughout the region.

On December 4, the Trump administration released its 2025 National Security Strategy, the document articulating America's approach to global security.

In 2025, a startling spectacle emerges: the nation that proclaimed itself democracy's global arbiter now displays the very symptoms of authoritarianism it once denounced.

In Australia, as elsewhere, legitimate concerns about housing and economic fairness can be, and increasingly are exploited by anti-democratic actors who frame migration not as a policy issue but as a cultural threat.

The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk in the United States on 10 September 2025 signals a renewed threat to democratic stability in the United States and beyond.

While past exclusions of entry to the US targeted individuals, the revoking of visas—directed at an entire visiting leadership delegation from the PA and PLO—is without precedent in UN history.