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.
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...
The Centre hosted a live screening of the third presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
The presidential debate was held at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and was moderated by...
The Centre screened the second presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump live in the USSC boardroom.
The town hall-style debate was held at Washington University in St. Louis and was hosted...
Don Watson and fellow Quarterly Essayist James Brown discussed the strangest election campaign the US has ever seen. In Quarterly Essay 63: Enemy Within, Don Watson takes a memorable journey into the...
Is American politics dysfunctional or does it just look that way? What happens when aggressive hyper-partisanship collides with a political system that can only work co-operatively? Is the damage fatal to the democratic...
Brexit, Bernie, Trump and Turnbull: modern democracies are being challenged by populist politics and ambitious politicians are riding the wave of newly mobilised voters. In the United States, the threat of civil war...
The next US president will face numerous foreign policy challenges including heightened tensions across Europe, the Middle East and the South China Sea. Bringing together US foreign policy experts who have worked with...
The USSC teamed up with ABC News 24’s Planet America to celebrate the Democratic National Convention. The Chaser's Chas Licciardello and USSC Research Associate John Barron, along with a panel of experts, put...
How did US politics get to this sorry state? America's political civil war began in the 1960s. The most notable feature is the rise of the New America - constituencies that used to...
American critic Vivian Gornick joined New York Times columnist Roger Cohen, Chicago adoptee Aleksandar Hemon and politics and foreign policy expert Dr David Smith to discuss what drives and divides the greatest superpower...
