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Rundle: Trump defends 'temperament', Clinton tries reason

The first debate has been a draw, with neither side drawing a knockout blow.

Rundle: the horror of non-horror -- killing time in the modern prison system

Modern prisons present themselves as places that detain dangerous people, but their purpose is really to use time and duration as a form of torture.

Rundle: you have 7 weeks to get ready for a Trump presidency

Is Hillary Clinton definitely going to win the presidency? Crikey's writer-at-large would not bet on it.

Rundle: Clinton campaign catches downdraft, goes into tailspin

Team HRC has had three disasters in the last few days. And Donald Trump has been rewarded munificently -- simply by doing nothing.

Want to reunite with your family in Australia? That’ll be $43k, please

Alternatively, you can pay just $3870. Of course, that option comes with a 25-year layover, writes migration blogger and freelance writer Henry Sherrell.

The US government is angered by the European Union acting as a "supranational tax authority" -- presumably because the US thinks only it can act as global corporate policeman, <b>Glenn Dyer</b> and <b>Bernard Keane</b> write.

Taxing times as US hypocrisy meets envy and exceptionalism

The US government is angered by the European Union acting as a "supranational tax authority" -- presumably because the US thinks only it can act as global corporate policeman, Glenn Dyer and Bernard Keane write.

Rundle: Trump's too busy bashing immigrants to land a blow on Clinton

Trump's family-based campaign appeared, for a time, to finally get through to the Donald, but then it all went downhill again.

No, Clintonistas, sexism is not worse than racism

Powerful white women often underplay the seriousness and prevalence of racism.

Rundle: the end of two-party politics

Whoever can reformulate their party in a way that promises some new synthesis of global vs communal, open vs closed systems, becomes the legitimate representative of modernity

Clinton isn’t just ‘one of the girls’ – powerful women do not feel your pain

Powerful women appropriate the rhetoric of liberal feminism to further their own destructive agendas.