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ABC The Drum
Donald Trump's entry into the 2016 presidential race has given Republicans a difficult choice, says research associate John Barron. They can either take him seriously and risk turning their party...
US News & World Report
Research associate Nicole Hemmer says Democrats like Hillary Clinton are reclaiming the rhetoric of family values on the 2016 hustings.
ABC The Drum
Whether Jeb Bush is running for president out of obligation or conviction is beside the point for some conservatives — for them the question is whether they are in danger...
US News & World Report
As during the civil rights movement, footage of police brutality has proved critical to the Black Lives Matter media strategy, says research associate Nicole Hemmer.
The Saturday Paper
The Shangri-La Dialogue focused diplomatic attentions on the US response to Chinese construction of artificial islands in the South China Sea. Alliance 21 director James Brown reports from "band camp for...
This essay by Marc-William Palen seeks to trace the many—and often conflicting—economic ideological interpretations of the transatlantic abolitionist impulse. In particular, it explores the contested relationship between free-trade ideology and transatlantic abolitionism, and...
The Australian
China's moves to build artificial islands in contested territory in the South China Sea have provoked other nations in the region to look for ways to reinforce international norms. Director of...
ABC The Drum
As the rally-around-the-flag effect of the War on Terror began to fade, concerns over surveillance have started to emerge in the United States. Lecturer Gorana Grgic says the new USA Freedom Act...
US News & World Report
Research associate Nicole Hemmer says former New York governor George Pataki will be the rare moderate in the 2016 Republican presidential race.
ABC The Drum
The United States has just dialled back powers of surveillance that were granted to agencies in the aftermath of 9/11. Meanwhile, Australia is moving in the opposite direction, says editor...
ABC The Drum
If presidential hopeful Martin O'Malley can give Democrats someone else to consider and journalists someone else to write about, it will make the next 12 months more interesting, if not...
The Australian–US relationship today is so comfortable it's hard to imagine a time when the two nations considered abandoning their alliance. Former Australian minister for foreign affairs Bob Carr reviews a new book by research...
ABC The Drum
In 2011, Rick Santorum donned his infamous sweater vest and campaigned for the Republican nomination. He's back for round two, but will most likely look as dated and out of...
US News & World Report
Straw polls, like the Southern Republican Leadership Conference's one Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson won over the weekend, draw a lot of attention. Research associate Nicole Hemmer explain why the...
The Australian
Australia figures more prominently in US foreign policy than at any time since World War II. Research associate Tom Switzer says Australia must nevertheless recognise that the rise of China increasingly means different...
The Australian
Australia’s diplomatic skills are bound to be severely tested as the relationship between China and the US grows more contentious. Visiting professor Linda Jakobson says Australia must work out reasonable and workable...
US News & World Report
An anonymously-sourced Seymour Hersh story published in the London Review of Books says the killing of Osama bin Laden was undertaken with the secret cooperation of the Pakistani...
Meanjin
The success of musical sensations like Jesus Christ Superstar and Godspell were a cultural vanguard that presaged the rise of evangelical Christianity as a force in American culture. Lecturer Rebecca Sheehan explains how Christian-themed...
The Sydney Morning Herald
With the rise of China the central strategic challenge of contemporary times, the US needs its alliance with Australia now more than ever. Research associate James Curran says Australians should...
US News & World Report
Research associate Nicole Hemmer says anti-Islam activist Pamela Geller's movement shares nothing with the peace-based politics of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King Jr, despite what its leadership might...
