"Nuclear deterrent" is what the good guys retain for emergencies; "nuclear weapons" are what the bad guys wield -- or seek to. Thus 'nonproliferation' has come to invoke nothing but a double standard. […]

Here's one practical tip: If you have school-aged child, chances are, in the next couple of weeks, you'll be buying a ton of "Back to School" supplies. My son, Quinn, is starting 3rd grade and I was astonished how the list of supplies has grown over just a couple of years. Read More... More on Homelessness […]

By American Rights at Work Executive Director Kimberly Freeman Brown and BlueGreen Alliance Executive Director David Foster This Labor Day, America is facing a dizzying... […]

The chance to make a difference -- the opportunity to leave things just a little better than the way we found them -- when you think about it, that's what really drives most of us throughout life. […]

BAGHDAD — Days after the U.S. officially ended combat operations and touted Iraq's ability to defend itself, American troops found themselves battling heavily armed militants assaulting an Iraqi military headquarters in the center of Baghdad on Sunday. The fighting killed 12 people and wounded dozens.It was the first exchange of fire involving U.S. troo […]

Inspired by a weird little exchange on Twitter where I asked “I wonder how different things would have been if John Watkins was made NSW Premier after Bob Carr?”, to which @BronwynHinz replied “I wonder how different things would have been if John Hewson beat Paul Keating in 1993 and Howard never became PM” – […]

OK, so it’s an odd title, but it’s an odd week! First up, it’s worth looking at the two party swing toward and away from the ALP that each seat experienced as a function of the notional ALP two party preferred of that seat heading into the election. If we break them down by state, […]

Over the last 30 years or so, probably longer, the size and distribution of the informal vote that we see at every election can be largely explained by a handful of variables – with the election on Saturday being no exception. The first of these variables is ballot length – the number of candidates we see […]

One of the big questions floating around the post-election limbo dance is whether ALP State government and state party parliamentary performance had an impact on the ALP results in the federal election. If we look at the two party preferred margin of the State ALP parties at their most recent poll (all Newspoll here except for […]

Holy animated Australian election news from Taiwan, Batman! […]

With all the pollsters in, we can finally run our final election day mega-simulation – and boy is it a close one! Not only does this simulation use our usual quasi-dependency framework (where we don’t treat seats as independent events), but we’ve also anchored seats together within each state on the basis of capital city […]