Opinion

DAVID WOIWOD: It’s not only the San Andreas fault that threatens to transform Los Angeles. It’s the political tremors out of Washington that have residents bracing. 

MITCHELL JOHNSON: This teenager has worked hard to get where he is and, having seen him up close, I have full confidence he will make it big in the USA.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: Each new day brings us fresh evidence of a deeply troubling trend — America is no longer a stable country, and it is growing less stable by the day.

WATCH: In Up Late, as rioters turn LA into a warzone and police shoot a journalist, Ben Harvey charts the violent history of civil unrest in California.

EDITORIAL: When Anthony Albanese rolls up to the Group of Seven meeting in Canada, he will need to be ready for anything.

KATE EMERY: Employers that insist on being able to see the whites of their employees eyes five days a week without justification might soon get a view of their other end instead.

CAMERON MILNER: Dorinda Cox is just another member of the Rat Pack of MPs who thought they were more important than the parties who supported them as candidates, or the voters duped into voting for them.

AARON PATRICK: Instead of using her global celebrity to explain a complex tragedy, the 22-year-old activist is convincing young people the war is a straightforward case of good Palestinians versus evil Jews.

GEORGIE PARKER: We just witnessed two awesome finals, but there is one lingering issue that continues to plague the female players at Roland Garros.

MARK ‘SPUDD’ CARROLL: The former Maroons skipper left Billy Slater with no choice after failing to read the writing on the wall and do the honourable thing.

AARON PATRICK: For the first time in 60 years, a President has federalised the National Guard without the support of a State Governor. Violence could follow.

THE NEW YORK TIMES: We are not being governed anymore by a traditional American administration. We are being governed by the Trump Organization Inc...

BEN HARVEY: Usually when people stop shopping, retailers cut prices. But what happens when they can’t? Spoiler: it’s bad

EDITORIAL: The pressure is on Anthony Albanese to secure some sort of exemption from American trade tariffs when he is finally face-to-facewith US President Donald Trump later this month. 

RHIANNA MITCHELL: The dire state of eating disorder treatment was laid bare this week in an Australian-led report which found anorexia nervosa sufferers faced ‘unacceptably poor outcomes’.