Taxaphobes tend to irrationally fear and compulsively oppose taxes, even if they strengthen the economy, increase overall prosperity, constitute good fiscal policy, benefit the middle and working ...

In similar fashion over the past week, Trump has now begun to undermine the defence and security of the Western Pacific, by reducing defence ties and strategic planning with South Korea, and making ...

Yet as I’ll explain below, Phil Eastman’s picture book Go Dog. Go! was a by-product of America’s post-war moral panic that Communists were everywhere, and were a deadly threat to the land of the free.

Christopher Luxon went into and came out of today’s special caucus meeting as damaged goods. If survival is to be counted as winning, it has still looked more like a Pyrrhic victory than a cause for ...

Correction: In this article I have mis-stated the rules around casting a vote in a place other than the electorate in which you are enrolled. Please ignore that paragraph in my column, which is ...

Decades ago, the Washington Post ran a carton showing White House advisors gibbering in terror backstage as a beaming Ronald Reagan suddenly looked away from the ...

Newsflash: PM Christopher Luxon does not take any responsibility for the condition in which the New Zealand economy currently finds itself. Not his problem. He’s done his bit. At a meeting in Rotorua ...

True, it may seem weird to try and warn teenagers about the horrors of war by writing them a story about teenagers who kill each other in a TV reality show. Nine times out of ten, you’d end up with ...

Earlier this week, when Christopher Luxon ruled out forming any government with Opportunity, it was like the ugly kid in class suddenly announcing that he’s not going to the birthday party if that ...

Soaring temperatures, bigger storms, more lightning strikes hitting tinder-dry conditions. Wildfires in Canada, France, ad Spain. Could climate change possibly be to blame? Not according to US ...

The Werewolf series of essays on classic children’s books focusses this week on Cynthia Voigt’s great story of a young girl’s resourcefulness, against the odds. Curiosity has always been a good friend ...