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After weeks of President Donald Trump’s baseless claims about voter fraud and other improprieties costing him the presidential election, Washington erupted in chaos today as his supporters stormed the Capitol during a joint...
History took place in the United States today.
Two Democrats were announced the winners of the run-off elections for Georgia’s two Senate seats, allowing the Democrats to take back control of the chamber...
The US Constitution is breaking down in ways that its designers recognised from history — and thought they had guarded against, writes USSC non-resident senior fellow Charles Edel in this article published by...
Joe Biden’s fate will be sealed over these next two days. On Tuesday, local time, Georgia votes. If the Democratic challengers defeat the two incumbent Republican Senators, President Biden will control the Senate...
Some still claim that Ronald Reagan switched the site of his first inauguration in 1981 from the east to the west side of the Capitol to symbolise both his ambition to change the...
Australians are pragmatic, and that perspective guides Canberra’s thinking about the change of administration in the US. While most Australians consider the Trump administration’s tone abrasive and style unsettling, its policies acknowledged deteriorating...
Since Joe Biden’s US election win, a wave of relief has washed over the foreign policy commentariat. The storyline appears set: with adults back in the room, Washington will relight multilateralism’s torch while...
Joe Biden’s team inherits a country deeply divided by the Trump administration’s handling of the coronavirus, writes USSC non-resident fellow Lesley Russell for Inside Story.
Twenty years ago this past weekend, the United States Supreme Court decided the presidential election, awarding Florida to George W. Bush. In the days preceding that ruling, Bush strongly consolidated his position as...
On Monday in the United States, the Electoral College members will cast their votes for president, duly electing Joe Biden without any further interruption or challenge after the US Supreme Court dismissed on...
After a tumultuous four years, the United States needs civilian leadership and a return to normalcy, writes USSC non-resident fellow Jim Golby. His article was published by The New York Times.
Past prime ministers and foreign ministers, academics, business people and journalists are critical of the government’s handling of our relationship with China.
These critics point to bad Australian policy, an over-reaction to slights...
A military conflict in the South China Sea would force most shipping from Europe, the Middle East and Africa destined for Asia and the US west coast to be diverted around the south...
The government response to this week’s tensions with China was understandable, and while it marks a new low in relations, it also confirms what was an existing trend.
Hawks in both capitals, already...
Set against some of the gravest political, economic, and social challenges in modern America, Joe Biden’s early cabinet picks are both conventional and historic. Diversity appears to be the order of the day...
Donald Trump is refusing to go quietly into the night.
While he has finally accepted the start of a transition process to the new administration, he has not conceded the election to Democratic...
After the tension of a very close election and dealing with the last gasps of the Trump era, work on climate action starts when Joe Biden and his team start making key appointments...
Seventh US president Andrew Jackson, whose portrait is prominently on display in the Oval Office these days, was asked in his lame-duck period: was there anything he regretted not doing while in office?
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US President-elect Joe Biden’s income-redistribution and green-energy programs are set to be eviscerated by the US Senate, even if the Democrats gain a spare majority by winning both Senate run-off races in the...
US President Donald Trump’s time in the White House is coming to an end. But, as has become obvious over the past few weeks, he is unlikely to deliver a gracious concession speech.
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