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.
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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...
The Trump train is pulling out of Washington DC for the final time, but the legacy of The Donald’s four chaotic years in power could linger over Australian politics for a while to...
Joe Biden’s inaugural address marked just the first act in the most challenging start to an American presidency in centuries, reports The Herald Sun. The article includes analysis from USSC research associate Elliott...
After weeks of pro-Trump demonstrations, failed legal battles, a deadly riot at Capitol Hill and a second impeachment, it’s finally happening. Joe Biden has taken over as the 46th President of the United...
USSC Associate Professor of American Politics Brendon O’Connor praised Joe Biden’s inaugural address and described it as an optimistic and very typical American speech. “It was a speech obviously with a theme of...
The transfer of presidential power conferred through the electoral process is a great and admirable American tradition, a pillar of American democracy admired around the world.
At noon on January 20 Joe Biden...
