While reckless and dangerous in its implementation, Trump’s spending freeze and mass firings are exactly what Americans want.

John Oliver returned with his Season 12 premiere of Last Week Tonight on Sunday night, where he took aim at Donald Trump and ...

Test your Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) knowledge with this multiple-choice quiz. One answer is correct. The quiz is based on reports of what Elon Musk and his merry band of tech nerds ...

Last Week Tonight returned for its Season 12 premiere on HBO on Sunday night (February 16), and host John Oliver shared his ...

It is long past time to get America’s soft-power operations back on track.

I claimed that the then federal ALP government was introducing a ‘US-style culture of litigation’. Then Attorney-General Michael Lavarch’s extensive equal opportunity ...

In the coming months, we’ll probably learn a lot more about how so many people in government jobs were able to buy so many ...

Like spoiled children finally told “no” by their parents, bureaucrats and beneficiaries of wasteful government largesse are ...

President Trump is using a time-honored technique known as “a parade of horribles” to build support for some of his most ...

Over the last week, revelation after revelation from Elon Musk’s DOGE has uncovered that USAID (the arm of the State Department responsible for administering foreign aid and development assistance), ...

EDITORIAL: It’s clear that USAID has gone off the rails. But throwing out the baby with the bathwater doesn’t serve the Trump ...

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