Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on 20 January 2021 with an expansive agenda that includes rolling out an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination program, reshaping the economic recovery, overhauling climate policy and rethinking the power of tech companies. Follow along as our leading experts explore and analyse the key events of the Biden presidency.
This USSC report is a compilation of analysis from 13 different US politics, foreign policy, defence and economics experts, which provides strategic recommendations and forms a comprehensive policy roadmap for Australians to the Biden administration.
On 6 January 2021, pro-Trump protestors violently stormed the US Capitol in Washington DC as Congress was meeting to certify the 2020 presidential election results. With American democracy in uncharted territory we will be providing ongoing analysis and information to help explain these events. Here are answers to some of our most frequently asked questions.
Australia will experience a permanent loss of population and productive potential because the government assumes no future make-up of lost NOM, but this is a policy choice that could be offset with a more liberal approach to immigration in the future.
The United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney is a university-based research centre, dedicated to the rigorous analysis of American foreign policy, economics, politics and culture.
The high watermark of inauguration speeches is Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural address, delivered in 1865 to an exhausted Union, with the end of the Civil War just a month away. Its spare 700...
More than 230,000 new COVID-19 cases were confirmed in the United States on Wednesday 13 January. Cumulatively, nearly 23.5 million Americans have been confirmed as carrying COVID-19 and nearly 400,000 have died with...
January 20 is Joe Biden’s first day as president. And Donald Trump’s last.
It is a measure of Trump’s corruption of the Zeitgeist that while more than 3000 Americans are dying each day...
Great American writer John Updike used to refer to his home state of Pennsylvania as being the doughy middle of America. Updike was perhaps more acute in his observation than he may have...
In a 1982 speech, then-US Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger warned that the United States had for the better part of a decade facilitated unfettered technological transfer and trade with the Soviet...
The US Constitution is breaking down in ways that its designers recognised from history — and thought they had guarded against, writes USSC non-resident senior fellow Charles Edel in this article published by...
It is rare to find a journalist, analyst, or indeed historian – this writer included – able to resist the allure of a secret government document unexpectedly liberated into the public domain. It is...
In Joe Biden’s inaugural address a central aspiration was for the re-establishment of “truth” as a core commitment in American life: “...each of us has a duty and responsibility, as citizens, as Americans...
United States Studies Centre CEO Professor Simon Jackman joined Hugh Riminton to discuss President Biden's inauguration and the US transfer of power in this episode of The Professor and the Hack.
On TIME Magazine's cover this week, the 46th President of the United States reports for his first day of work to find the hastily vacated office in a state of disarray: ransacked...
The first and last US president to set foot on Northern Territory soil, Barack Obama, spoke of the bond between the two allies during his visit to Darwin's Royal Australian Air Force Base...
