Is Trump a Republican?

The insanity inflicted by Donald Trump on American political life is not over, with Trump still a contender for the Presidency despite supporting Russia’s aggression in Ukraine and attempting a coup to remain in power last time around, but Trump remains very much an outlier in Republican history, rather than the mainstream.

Mug shot

Disgraced former President Donald Trump’s mug shot has become a popular meme, although it’s unlikely to sway the hardened views of his most ardent proponents and detractors regarding his attempt to overthrow American democracy.

Why does Trump want civil war?

The indictment of former United States president Donald Trump on charges he tried to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election is the most serious test of America’s experiment in constitutional government since December 1860, when the state of South Carolina seceded from the Union and set in motion the events leading to the Civil War.

Teflon Trump

Donald Trump will be remembered as a vacuous, corrupt, greedy egotist who tried and failed to stage a coup to cling to power, so what explains his enduring appeal to large swathes of Republican voters?

Australia warms to the US under Albanese

Anthony Albanese has strengthened US-Australian relations, with a mature and more diverse alliance offering security in the region and action on climate change.

The return of Donald Trump

It seems astonishing that Donald Trump, the man who tried to overthrow American democracy, is once again a contender for the Presidency, but his support among the white working class remains as strong as ever.

The rise and fall of the neoliberal order

A new book by Gary Gerstle examines the development of American policy from the New Deal through neo-liberalism and explores the prospects for an uncertain future.

Is time up for Trump?

Donald Trump fired up a mob to try to overthrow democracy when he lost the 2020 election and he looks set to use similar tactics to try to escape prosecution for misrepresenting cover-up payments to a porn star.

The fall of King Trump

A more pathetic crime would be hard to envision for a man who once tried to overthrow American democracy by force, but would-be American Czar Donald Trump will face justice over his pay offs to a porn star and is not the first American President to reap the consequences of overstepping his position.

A man of humanity

Former US President Jimmy Carter is spending the last stage of his life in home hospice care at the age of 98 and will be remembered for his humanity and humility outside office as much as his achievements within it.

America’s illusion of grand strategy

Richard Hanania, the author of Public Choice Theory and the Illusion of American Grand Strategy, argues that America’s international strategy is shaped by political pressures at home as much as threats and developments abroad.

The four ages of American foreign policy

Michael Mandelbaum’s latest book takes readers through America’s rise from settler-nation to superpower over the past 250 years.