Nick Baker

3 weeks ago | abc.net.au | Nick Baker |Sarah Allely

Does every society have a use-by date? The fact that we're not bumping into Aztecs or Byzantines around the place does suggest that they all end at some point. States can slowly decline and fade, or morph into new entities, while a few simply collapse in on themselves. "This is something which has haunted even the most powerful of empires," Luke Kemp, a research affiliate at the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge, tells ABC Radio National's Late Night Live.

Feb 25, 2025 | abc.net.au | Nick Baker |Jack Schmidt

Many American cities have dire public transport systems, but it hasn't always been this way. How did they get so bad and how does Australia compare?

Jan 27, 2025 | thedispatch.com | Peter Gattuso |Charles Hilu |Nick Baker |Michael Warren

President Donald Trump signed nearly during his first week days in office. One order he signed on Tuesday repealed a variety of federal diversity requirements, including a 1965 executive order that forbade discrimination in hiring practices by government contractors, issued by President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Dec 10, 2024 | abc.net.au | Nick Baker |Ann Arnold

Around a century ago, the United States of America was a largely unknown quantity for most Australians. Technology was much more rudimentary. Distances had more tyranny. Few of us travelled or lived abroad, and fewer still chose America as a destination. But there was a group of Australian women who ventured off into this unknown. During the 1920s and 1930s, hundreds of Australian women sailed to the US, curious about a country they thought would value them more than their homeland did.

May 3, 2024 | yaf.org | Nick Baker

Since the start of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in October, Young America’s Foundation has equipped students on campuses throughout the country to stand with Israel and fight back against terror-backing leftists. As pro-Hamas encampments and violent riots have rapidly developed at these schools, YAFers have been on the frontlines, constructing beautiful flag displays at some of the most embattled campuses in America.