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US News & World Report
Conservative politics and the Republican Party have changed in four major ways over the past decade, says research associate Nicole Hemmer.
Huffington Post
Lecturer Thomas Adams says the disaster that was Hurricane Katrina affected all residents regardless of their income or racial status. What happened to New Orleans afterward, however, was shaped intrinsically by imbalances...
Jacobin
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, reformers and civic boosters are celebrating the rebirth of New Orleans. Lecturer Thomas Adams asks whether efforts to use the city as a blank...
The Guardian
To effectively prevent China from militarising its new islands, the United States should look to regional economic, rather than military, threats, says Alliance 21 research fellow Ashley Townshend.
Fairfax Media
The United States has formally requested that Australia's support in the fight against Islamic State be extended beyond Iraq to include Syria. Lecturer Malcolm Jorgensen considers the legal implications involved in Australia...
US News & World Report
Research associate Nicole Hemmer says no principle expresses American exceptionalism and optimism better than birthright citizenship, and the GOP should be defending it rather than attacking it.
The New York Times
President Barack Obama says Republicans oppose his nuclear deal with Iran for the same reasons they preferred military action over diplomacy in Iraq in 2003. Research associates Nicole Hemmer...
The 91-year-old former secretary of state delivers an impressive coda to a career that has had more than its share of distinction
Hosted by the US Studies Centre in partnership with the NSW Government, the conference brought together experts from the US and Australia from the military, business, government and the scientific communities to address...
US News & World Report
Like Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, Barack Obama aims to stay in the game after leaving office, writes research associate Nicole Hemmer.
The Sydney Morning Herald
Calls are growing for the Obama administration to take more assertive action against Chinese encroachment on the South China Sea. Alliance 21 research fellow Ashley Townshend says such a response...
ABC The Drum
Each day that Donald Trump is in the race makes it that much more likely that the GOP's war on women will have an ironic ending: helping to elect America's...
ABC The Drum
The state of emergency called in Ferguson on the anniversary of the Michael Brown shooting is a sobering reminder that structural racism cannot be uprooted within a year, writes lecturer Gorana...
US News & World Report
Research associate Nicole Hemmer says Donald Trump is engaging in the age-old tradition of attacking "establishment" conservative media.
ABC News Online
The first Republican debate of the 2016 cycle, in Cleveland, Ohio, was anything but dull, says research associate John Barron. But did Donald Trump emerge from the circus still in contention?
ABC The Drum
Campaign folklore tells of many highly charged moments in US presidential debates, so will today's Republican primaries debate offer more gaffes and goodies? And who will come out as crowd...
Australian Financial Review
Donald Trump is to take the stage for the first Republican presidential debate alongside a slew of seasoned Republican politicians, all of whom he leads in the polls. Lecturer David...
The Australian
Research associate Tom Switzer eulogises Robert Conquest, the West’s pre-eminent chronicler of Soviet terror, who died this week at the age of 98.
US News & World Report
Conservative caricatures of US history teaching are wrong, says research associate Nicole Hemmer, but the right shouldn't be excluded from debate over curricula.
The Saturday Paper
Aover the past year, Australia and the United States have spent hundreds of millions of dollars fighting the Islamic State terror group. Alliance 21 director James Brown considers how much progress...
