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America first
Elizabeth Buchanan | January 24, 2025The litany of executive orders that have dropped on the White House website tell us plenty about what Australia can expect from a second Trump term’s foreign policies.
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Revenge and retribution
Emma Shortis | January 22, 2025In his inaugural address, Trump outlined a radical agenda to reshape American life and the United States’ role in the world.
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Trump’s new world order
Stefan Wolff | January 20, 2025Donald Trump’s foreign policy ideas – from annexing Canada to surrendering Europe to Russia – sound like the plot of a Hollywood satire, but are about to become a reality.
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In praise of Jimmy Carter
Jared Mondschein | December 31, 2024The travails of Jimmy Carter’s Presidency long over-shadowed his exemplary qualities as a man, but his passing at the ripe old age of 100 reminds us once again that politicians can be honourable people, and offers a sharp contrast in style and character with the incoming incumbent of the White House.
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Why Trump won
Bernie O'Kane | December 21, 2024Donald Trump’s chaotic first term exposed a litany of faults to the American people, yet his bombastic style and calls for change secured re-election at a canter this year. What can an in-depth analysis of his first term and a Guardian survey of voter attitudes in 2024 tell us about the man who, for better or worse, now stands at the cusp of four more years of power?
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Why the ‘lost boys’ love Trump
Kate Scott | November 13, 2024Young white working class males in the USA revolted en masse against the ‘woke’ agenda associated with their generation to propel Donald Trump back into the White House.
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How the Democrats lost the working class
George Morgan | November 12, 2024Kamala Harris built her campaign around social movements of gender and race with a raft of celebrity endorsements but her failure to appeal to white working class males cost her the election.
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Why Trump won
Alex Hinton | November 8, 2024No, it wasn’t a nightmare, the United States really have re-elected Donald Trump to the Presidency. What on Earth were they thinking?
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Why Harris lost
Emma Shortis | November 8, 2024Why did working class white women and swathes of the Democratic base abandon Kamala Harris and vote for Donald Trump – or not vote at all?
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The triumph of Trump
Jared Mondschein | November 7, 2024For better or worse, the American electorate has propelled Donald Trump back into power, so what will happen now?
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It’s the final countdown
Emma Shortis | November 6, 2024America teeters on a knife-edge as it finally goes to the polls and whatever the result – and however long it takes to come through – the divisions and conspiracy theories that have destabilised US politics in recent years will not be easily or quickly resolved.
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The end of pax Americana?
Michael Pezzullo | November 6, 2024A policy of American isolationism under a second Trump administration – or even a future democratic one – would imperil not just the future of Ukraine, Taiwan and Israel but potentially peace across the whole world.