As the two sides in US politics begin jockeying for position following the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the similarities to the 2016 presidential election are striking, write USSC senior advisor Jared Mondschein.
President Trump is trailing in the polls with under two months until the US presidential election. But presidential election polling performed poorly in 2016. So what do the polls really indicate about the state of the race? New research from Simon Jackman and Zoe Meers assesses the 2020 race with the lessons of the past in mind.
Got something to say about the Australian and US-led responses to COVID-19? Enter the USSC's writing competition for a chance to be published on the USSC website and win great prizes! Non-fiction and creative writing entries are welcome with winners selected from each category.
While the Australian economy has been strong for decades, the future trajectory is grim without a pivot toward innovation, according to a new report from USSC. Report author Jared Mondschein points to concerning trends indicating stunted growth without a concerted effort to course-correct for innovation.
In this collection of essays, USSC experts cover the broad array of policy positions a prospective Biden or second Trump administration could take and the impact for Australia with a strong consensus that even after the pandemic, US relations with China will be the dominant issue for either administration.
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It is now an article of faith that coronavirus has intensified existing strategic trends in world politics.
Chief among these has been the "return" of nationalism.
The globe’s most urgent issue is being...
Bob Woodward’s new book, Rage, is based on 18 taped interviews with US President Donald Trump, totalling nine hours and 41 minutes. In one of them, the author talks in terms of writing...
Six weeks out from the US Presidential Election there’s one question on everyone’s mind - will Donald Trump be in office for four more years? His handling of COVID-19 has been widely condemned...
There's always been a reasonable chance the US Supreme court could decide the race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. A few days ago, it underwent a tectonic shift when Ruth Bader Ginsberg...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, one of the most respected and revered US Supreme Court justices in recent decades, has died, leaving an immense void in the lives of untold millions of Americans who were...
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden leads Donald Trump in the bulk of opinion polls, with just 50 days until the November election.
But poll-based forecasts were widely maligned after the 2016 election, and...
In May 2020, as COVID-19 subsumed the Democratic primaries and Bernie Sanders suspended his presidential campaign, Joe Biden moved to shore up party support by setting up “Unity Task Teams”. These included an...
This collection of short essays by USSC scholars and experts covers the broad array of policy positions a prospective Biden or second Trump administration could take and the impact for Australia with a strong consensus that even after the...
On A Foreign Affair, how individual states are struggling to ensure a legitimate voting process for the November US presidential elections; how the race to find a vaccine has revitalised espionage as dominant...
The death of Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg has created a hotly contested vacancy at a critical moment in US history. In this Sydney Morning Herald article, Heath Gilmore explains what's at...
Is Donald Trump a better bet for Asia than Joe Biden? While the region’s political elites are far more worried about China than climate change, Trump is more focused on containing China than...
ABC News reports on the latest in the US election with comments from USSC CEO Simon Jackman.
The death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the only woman on the supreme court has thrust women’s issues back into the spotlight. SBS Dateline has taken a look at where the presidential front runners...
