When Donald Trump called the 100 days mark for judging a presidency a “ridiculous standard,” he was echoing what historians have said for years. USSC research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer has listed for...

Under-promise, over-deliver. As someone who spent a lifetime making deals, Donald Trump no doubt knows this bit of sales advice. Yet as his presidency nears the 100-day mark, Trump faces a long list...

Unable to construct anything on his own because he lacks the knowledge, skill and experience, President Trump has been on the hunt for something he can slap his name on. If not the...

USSC visiting fellow Stephen Loosley reviews Craig Collie’s book Code Breakers for The Australian.

When Vice President Mike Pence lands in Australia, the last stop on his Asia-Pacific tour, he'll witness a country debating its close ties with the United States. Worries about China's rise and US...

Australia’s popular standing in Washington DC is at a high-water mark following the infamous Trump–Turnbull phone call. There’s immense goodwill towards Australia, but that hasn’t yet translated to a formal re-evaluation of the...

Vice President Mike Pence will touch down in Sydney this week aboard Air Force Two – his two-day visit to Australia likely to be low-key affair.

It will be the first time a...

Research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes for U.S. News and World Report about how institutions gift a veneer of respectability to white nationalists who promote racist pseudoscience.

Embracing questionable political figures as a way of advancing legitimate foreign-policy critiques is a trade-off right-wing non-interventionists have made again and again. They did so with Lindbergh, with Buchanan, with Trump. And now...

The Alliance 21 team chose a dramatic week to be in Washington. Our researchers spent last week engaging with the US foreign, defence, and trade policy community, meeting with administration officials and congressional staff...

President Trump's impulses seem guided by his desire for attention and good reviews, and his decision to order the missile strike on Syria won him both, writes research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer.

The US attorney general is ready to bring back the days when conservatives lacked compassion on criminal justice, writes research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer for U.S. News and World Report.

The “nuclear option” sounds like a scary solution to the North Korean crisis, but it is the nickname of a parliamentary maneuver the Republican Party is likely to use this week in order...

Research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes for U.S. News & World Report that many on the nationalist right want to expand the very health care programs Republicans are promising to cut.

Australians should care about the healthcare debacle in Washington. Republicans said yesterday they still want to repeal Obamacare, but after events last week it is hard to see how President Trump and congressional...

One of the best comedies of the Cold War was Norman Jewison’s film 'The Russians are Coming; The Russians are Coming' of 1966. The plot centres on a Soviet submarine whose curious Captain...

US President Donald Trump called Andrew N. Liveris, AO “one of the foremost leaders in the world of business”. At this US Studies Centre/American Chamber of Commerce event, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer...

Research associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes for U.S. News and World Report.

Donald Trump’s casual rhetoric of genetic superiority, his stable of advisers touting the supremacy of white Western culture, his hesitance to denounce supporters like David Duke and the alt-right — all this has...

While the Asia-Pacific does not rank highly in US President Donald Trump’s worldview, his administration looks to be adopting a more muscular security policy in the region than that of his predecessor. During...