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Shortly after becoming the US Secretary of State in 1818, John Quincy Adams surveyed the State Department and declared “all in disorder and confusion”. Two hundred years later, Mike Pompeo will confront a...
The Fox News host has Trump’s ear because he’s a booster, not because he’s influential, writes USSC honorary associate Dr Nicole Hemmer for The Washington Post.
Nearly 300 people converged on Washington, DC last Thursday for the G’Day USA Dialogue on Defence Industries. In light of the newly-announced goal of growing Australia's defence industry into a top ten global...
In 1990, as America's first lady, Barbara Bush delivered a Commencement Address at the prestigious Wellesley women's college in Massachusetts that experts later voted one of the 50 best political speeches in history.
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From the Mexican border wall to refugee swap deals from Manus and Nauru, immigration has been a recurring point of tension during the Trump administration. But debate over a group of between 700,000-800,000...
The United States and Australia enjoy a deep and multi-faceted relationship spanning many years and generations. Having fought in every major war together for the past century and bound by a formal military...
When the first season of Roseanne aired across 1988–89 it was called, by some critics, “slob comedy”. Variety declared that the Conners were “appalling TV role models” in its review of the first...
Donald Trump has proposed an additional $US100 billion ($130.3 billion) in tariffs on Chinese imports, on top of the 25 per cent tariffs on $US50 billion of imports already mooted as retaliation for...
In the latest instalment of our Debate Papers series, Tom Uren and Michelle Price argue whether Australia has what it takes to be a cyber power.
Spare a thought for Facebook and Twitter, two of the less-recognised casualties of the 2016 election in the United States.
For nearly two years now, they have come under fire for their role...
The United States used to think regularly about the islands of the South Pacific. On her tour of the region in 1943, Eleanor Roosevelt had a message for Americans troops stretched out across the Pacific...
This year’s midterm elections will aggravate America’s partisan warfare and polarisation. The Democratic Party is currently narrowly favoured to retake the House of Representatives on 6 November. With that, a new cohort of...
Cultural milestones generally are best observed at a distance. On occasion, some of the great works of art are overlooked or dismissed, with the early conclusions being overtaken by the passage of time...
US President Donald Trump’s ability to achieve legislative successes in the two years before the 2020 presidential election will depend in large part on the results of this year’s midterms. On 6 November...
From guns to health care, Washington seems more gridlocked and politically divided than ever, yet there’s actually some fairly widespread consensus on at least one issue: China is not playing fairly when it...
A blue wave is coming.
With both Donald Trump and the Republican Party's popularityina slump, Democrats feel well-positioned for the 2018 elections. They received another hopeful sign last week, when Democrat Conor Lamb...
If Washington insiders are to be trusted, since at least mid-2017 it has been a question of when, not if, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson would be replaced. What stunned many this...
In the early 17th century, three Catholic dignitaries were thrown out of a window in Prague due to doctrinal differences. The event, which came to be known as the Defenestration of Prague, sparked...
For more than 13 months many Americans have been looking for ways to push back against the presidency of Donald Trump. Millions have taken to the streets in protest. Millions more have channelled...
Senior Fellow at the USSC Charles Edel revisits John F. Kennedy's 1956 Profiles in Courage. Kennedy wrote the book five years before he became president and Edel argues it has assumed significant...
