Could the Australian government do more to support local innovation and grow our own American-style tech giants? We asked leading innovation commentators James Riley and Sandy Plunkett to debate the issue.

Gun violence remains one of the most vexing issues in the United States. Since 1968, more Americans have now died at the barrel of a gun in civilian society than the sum total...

The kids are all right. That’s the takeaway from the last several weeks in the US, where teenagers have been leading a new gun-control movement that seems to have some staying power —...

The Trump administration's decision to impose global tariffs of 25 per cent on imported steel and 10 per cent on aluminium will come as a disappointment to Australia and other US allies who...

Every workable immigration policy from the 1986 amnesty to Obama’s DACA plan has had one thing in common: they were attempts to adapt policy to the reality of migration.

Trump’s hardline immigration proposals...

Delta Airlines is the latest corporation to get drawn into the fray of America's increasingly pugilistic politics. On Saturday, Delta joined more than a dozen companies in severing its partnership with the National...

The National Governors Association (NGA) Winter Meeting was held over the weekend and, as reported, was addressed by Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

Malcolm Turnbull's trip to Washington has been newsworthy precisely because it has been so un-newsworthy. Which is simply to say that given Trump's penchant for unpredictable speech and behaviour, the fact that the...

While media attention remains fixed on Donald Trump, focusing too intently on the president obscures the profound role played by the institution of the presidency and the stress test it faces. The presidency...

Washington crawled with Australians for three days, with the visit of the largest and most senior Australian political and business delegation ever to visit. In addition to the Prime Minister and Trade Minister...

Australia will send its largest-ever political and business delegation to the United States this week. If anything, Australia has "doubled down" on its relationship with the United States since President Donald Trump began...

Honorary Associate Nicole Hemmer writes that the teens speaking up after the Parkland shooting fit into a long tradition of high school students in the US seeking places other than the ballot box...

Compared to Australia, the United States has a trust problem. Recent polling by YouGov for the United States Studies Centre, surveying both Australians and Americans, showed Australians consistently reporting higher levels of trust...

You could feel the panic wafting off the presidential Twitter feed. In less than 24 hours, Donald Trump spit out more than a dozen tweets in response to the sweeping indictments handed down...

USSC Senior Fellow Dr Charles Edel responds to Kurt M. Campbell and Ely Ratner’s Foreign Affairs article on a "mistaken" US confidence in its ability to mould China to its liking.

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Researchers from the United States Studies Centre (USSC) at the University of Sydney have released the results of an extensive comparison of trust in both Australia and the United States.

CEO Professor Simon...

Senior USSC fellow Dr Charles Edel writes that there is a false dichotomy at play in discussions of Chinese and American power that sees them destined for war, forcing the rest of the...

Incoming chairmen of the US Federal Reserve board often find themselves stepping into trouble. Alan Greenspan took up the role two months before the 1987 stock market crash. Ben Bernanke assumed the office...

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) to be signed in Chile on 8 March is a welcome step to freer trade in the Pacific region. Yet the absence of the...

Admiral Harry Harris, the top US military commander in the Indo-Pacific, is set to be formally nominated as the US Ambassador to Australia in two weeks, when Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull meets President...