Since 2008 the United States Studies Centre has been helping make sense of the US presidential elections with a series of events featuring Centre experts and visitors.
Next month, Joe Biden will choose his running mate, the presumptive Democratic Party's vice presidential candidate. Biden has pledged that his running mate will be a woman but committed to little beyond that. The last female major party vice presidential candidate...
The Perth USAsia Centre and United States Studies Centre host a monthly web series in which our CEOs review the latest in US politics with a focus on the upcoming US election and...
The Perth USAsia Centre and United States Studies Centre host a monthly web series in which our CEOs review the latest in US politics with a focus on the US election and US-Indo-Pacific...
By almost any measure, Americans across the country, and observers around the world, believe this is one of the most consequential and important US presidential elections in living memory. At the present time, President Trump is...
The Perth USAsia Centre and United States Studies Centre launched a monthly web series in which our CEOs review the latest in US politics with a focus on the upcoming US election and...
President Trump’s critics often describe his term of office as filled with pure and uninhibited chaos. The Washington Post White House Correspondent Philip Rucker disagrees. In the reporter’s latest book – the award-winning A...
Amid a global pandemic severely afflicting both public health and the global economy, US tensions with Iran have not abated. On the contrary, only four months after the killing of Iranian General Qassem...
The 2018 federal election in the United States saw the Democrats take back the House of Representatives from the Republicans, proving to be a key constraint on President Trump’s policy agenda since then. The...
We are six months out from arguably the most pivotal and fraught US election in living memory. The COVID-19 pandemic is fundamentally altering the terrain on which the 2020 election will be contested...
One year from this month, a newly elected president will take office in Washington, DC. The long and intense competition leading to that day begins on 3 February 2020, with the Iowa Caucuses...
The USSC teamed up with the ABC's Planet America for an event looking at the big winners and losers as the Democrats and Republicans went head-to-head in the midterm battle for Congress. Hosts John...
Crime, immigration, poverty, disenfranchisement, police brutality, inequality: no matter the proxy, race has been the undercurrent of almost every major campaign issue in the 2016 US election. Anti-immigration forces and white supremacists have...
