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The Russians have never left the stage in Washington DC, merely being off in the wings, but remaining ever present. Now they are back singing in the spotlight, courtesy of a former FSB...
Watergate has emerged as the preferred historical scandal for understanding the Trump administration in its first sixth months. There are plenty of good reasons for this, but they come with an unfortunate side...
Senator John McCain's vote on the GOP health care bill will play a big role in defining his legacy, writes USSC research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer for U.S. News and World Report.
How can Australia better engage with an unprecedented US administration? USSC research fellow Dougal Robinson offers a blueprint for how the government should retool its political engagement in Washington to make it more...
Australian political leaders need to change how they engage with the US. The US congress has demonstrated overwhelming goodwill towards Australia this year. But it has not been reciprocated.
Australia’s engagement with the...
"Will Donald Trump be impeached?" is perhaps the question I get asked the most often these days. Sometimes the question starts with the word "when".
Speculation about Trump being impeached by Congress has...
There's a lot we still don't know about last June's secret meeting between the Trump campaign and Russian lawyers and lobbyists. Indeed, the news seems to have raised more questions than it answered...
Just two US presidents have been impeached and none removed from office. Despite this, there has been much speculation about the prospect of Donald Trump being impeached by Congress. But how likely is...
President Trump's opponents won't effect change by pining for a bygone era of bipartisanship, writes USSC research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer for U.S. News and World Report.
Ever since billionaire Donald Trump declared his candidacy for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination in June 2015, politicians (both Democratic and Republican), the media, and the global public have expressed an escalating concern...
There has never been more global interest in the leadership of the United States, nor US interest in global opinion about the American leadership. ABC political editor Chris Uhlmann's two-minute viral video assessment...
Recent international public opinion polls show that US global image has taken a hit since President Donald Trump assumed office. Some of the starkest decline in support has been recorded in traditional Western...
The move to shift Afghanistan operations from the military to contractors shows the full reach of the Trump administration's core philosophy: the privatisation of everything, writes USSC research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer for...
"The President in no way, form, or fashion has ever promoted or encouraged violence. If anything, quite the contrary." So said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the President's new spinmeister, last week. Like so many...
One of the areas of focus in President Trump’s ‘Tech Week’ last month was the emerging technology of unmanned aircraft systems, known in Australia as remotely piloted aircraft (or more popularly – drones).
The...
Fifty years ago today the Freedom of Information Act went into effect in the United States. In her latest article for U.S. News, USSC research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes that the FOIA...
Joseph Dunford, the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, made a remarkable admission last month: “Without sustained, sufficient, and predictable funding, I assess that within five years we will lose our...
In her latest piece for Vox, USSC research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer says that President Trump is adding a dark chapter to the modern history of presidential concealment of information.
In late 2014, a film starring Seth Rogen and James Franco found itself at the center of a political and corporate crisis. The film, entitled The Interview, featured the duo as tabloid journalists recruited...
Momentum behind US-India strategic ties remains on firm footing in the wake of President Donald Trump’s first meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the Oval Office this week. Labeling Modi a...
