A new NRA president is the cue for another look at the Republican Party’s debt to the deep south.

Sandra Day O’Connor, who indirectly gave us the Iraq war and much else, now seems to regret her role. Better late than never.

Here we go again – weapons of mass destruction in the Middle East. If Syria has really started using them, that’s a big problem.

Another disappointment in the quest for Middle East peace as Israel refuses to engage with a fresh offer from the Arab League.

The ACT government thinks it can set up its own family law system. Supporters of marriage equality should recognise that that’s a bad idea.

President Obama’s modest plan for gun control falls victim to the paradox of gradualism.

Israel, Iran and North Korea. Different nuclear programs, very different reactions.

Unions NSW is launching a High Court challenge to election expenditure laws. A recent case from Pennsylvania provides an interesting contrast.

It looks as if there’ll be no established religion in North Carolina, at least legally. But the Republican Party has shown off some interesting views about the constitution.

Actions are illegal, not people. But Associated Press has got itself into a political storm by acknowledging this conceptual truth.