Russia has seized upon loopholes in lobbying laws, hiring PR firms to influence American public opinion and policy in ways that advance Russia’s strategic interests.
The share of fireworks being used for professional displays like this one at the Capitol last year is falling.
Reuters/Carlos Barria
Every American shoots off almost a pound of fireworks a year, on average, and their growing personal use is causing injuries to climb.
Climate crusaders: President Macron, right, with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg after a June 2 meeting at the Elysee Palace, following the US withdrawal from the Paris agreement.
Christophe Petit Tesson/Reuters
International problems and local policies are integrally interwoven, whether the nationalists in Washington like it or not.
Non-profit status enables media organisations in the US to avoid federal and some state taxes and donations to them can be tax deductible.
Lucas Jackson/Reuters
Tax deductibility for donations to non-profit journalism centres in the United States have invigorated quality journalism. This same model could help Australian journalism.
The USS Dewey, a guided-missile destroyer from the US navy, patrolled in the South China Sea on May 24 2017.
Reuters
Many in the US are celebrating LGBTQ rights for Gay Pride Month. But data show that most countries, including the US, need to do much more to protect sexual minorities.
On June 1, 2017, President Donald Trump announced that he would take the U.S. out of the Paris Agreement, and that he could negotiate a “better deal”.
Saul Loeb/AFP
On June 1, Donald Trump announced that he would take the US out of the Paris climate agreement because it was “unfair” to the US. An economic analysis indicates otherwise.
Bill Hare, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
Like president George W. Bush before him, Donald Trump made the announcement from the White House Rose Garden, showing that Republican governments have failed to learn past lessons.
US President Donald Trump and African dictator Idi Amin - different, but the same.
EPA and Reuters
Some may say it’s far fetched to compare a 1970s African dictator with the President of the United States. But the similarities between Idi Amin and Donald Trump are quite startling.
Will US President Trump and Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ride together to rule in the Middle East?
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University