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Robert Mueller's report on the investigation into the 2016 election landed on Thursday, following months of anticipation. With dozens of indictments and several plea deals already public, many of the findings, such as...
The report by Robert Mueller, the special counsel charged with investigating Russian interference in the US presidential election of 2016, is a tale of two insults to America’s democracy.
The first – external...
Red is the new black, right?
Jeremy Corbyn leads the British Labour Party. Bernie Sanders came close to winning the Democratic Party's nomination for the US presidency describing himself as a "democratic socialist".
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Socialism is back. Well known for their love of avocados and Netflix, Millenials are now also apparently embracing the radical leftist politics of economic equality and public ownership of the means of production.
It’s happened twice in the past two weeks: President Trump has laid out bold positions on immigration (closing the border with Mexico) and health (repealing Obamacare), but then retreated on both.
This is a man...
Europe might seem far away, but its strategic predicament offers important lessons for Australia.
Addressing a joint session of the US congress last week commemorating NATO’s 70th anniversary, secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg said that...
Now that special counsel Robert Mueller has finished his investigation into the Trump campaign and Russian involvement in the 2016 US election, congressional Democrats are taking the baton, gearing up for a series...
In the 1960s, the United States faced a crisis when psychedelic drugs became central to the counterculture. Terrified of the consequences of widespread use, the federal government, in 1968, banned these substances. This...
At the start of the 2016 presidential election cycle, Donald Trump’s candidacy was largely written off. As his campaign gained steam, it ultimately sucked the air out of the room for all other...
Australian Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has declared the next federal election a ‘referendum on wages'. Unfortunately, we can’t just vote ourselves a wage increase. Productivity growth is the only sustainable source of real...
The impeachment of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, died on Sunday in Washington with the release of the four-page summary of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report.
For the 675 days...
As artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics technologies progress, the increasing autonomy of unmanned military systems will drive new operational concepts with the potential to transform modern war. The Indo-Pacific’s contested littoral sandboxes and...
Lecturer in US Politics and Foreign Policy Gorana Grgic and Professor James Goldgeier reflect on what has changed in the twenty years since the Kosovo War. They write that "it is now hard...
Last week Radovan Karadzic was finally sentenced for his role in the barbaric ethnic cleansing during the Bosnian War in the 1990s. The sentencing came less than a week after the massacre in...
You know the drill: a politician makes a defamatory attack on another person on the floor of Parliament. The aggrieved party demands that they have the courage to repeat their slander outside the...
Subdued wages growth has been a feature of the Australian and US economies in recent years, posting the slowest growth on record on some measures. This has led some to question whether workers...
The college cheating scandal which has embroiled Hollywood stars Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin has made headlines around the world. From March 12, ‘Felicity Huffman’ has been the most-searched Google term globally, with...
Senior Fellow Dr Charles Edel and Professor Hal Brands wrote about the end of an era where it could be credibly claimed that 'the major powers were at peace'.
This article is an...
Australian policymakers stand to learn a lot from the United States' research and development (R&D) sector. In particular the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program, implemented in 1982, has revolutionised the research and...
The US Congress plays an important albeit limited and context-dependent role shaping US foreign policy in Asia. During President Donald Trump’s first two years in office, the Republican-majority Congress appropriated two major increases...
