World

It’s not the job he was chosen for, but the Pope is emerging as a major power player in a troubled region

Leah McLaren on how WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s plea for protection in France couldn’t have come at a worse time

While the nation applauds banning a racist flag, real problems with race and inequality rage on. Why there’s not enough action in America

Why Stephen Harper has nothing on Australia’s prime minister, who has demanded no front-bencher venture onto a popular interview show

While America tussles over the banning of the Confederate flag, real problems continue to smoulder. A sneak peek at our latest cover story.

Paul Wells on Greece’s bailout vote and the ’essentially contested concept’ of democracy

It’s clear now that cuts alone won’t fix Greece’s backward and dysfunctional economy

After saying no to austerity, Greeks must realign their expectations of government so they correspond with the rest of the Western world

The prime minister’s brinksmanship did too much damage to Greece’s financial system to justify the leverage he got

Obama: ’God has visited grace upon us’