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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 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...
ABC Radio National Between the Lines
Research associate Tom Switzer says Republican outrage over President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran has a familiar ring.
US News & World Report
The GOP's populism problem leads it to briefly back unelectable candidates like Donald Trump, says research associate Nicole Hemmer, even if it won't back them for the presidency.
Australian Institute of International Affairs
Polls show a clear majority of the American people say the US invasion of Iraq was not worth it. Research associate Tom Switzer explains why Republican policy on the...
US News & World Report
Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me is vital reading at this moment in America, writes research associate Nicole Hemmer.
The Australian
A nuclear deal struck by the United States with Iran has elicted a hostile response from Congressional Republicans and America's allies in the Middle East. Research associate Tom Switzer says the agreement...
ABC Radio National Between the Lines
Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 was blown from the Ukrainian sky a year ago. Twelve months on from the tragedy, research associate Tom Switzer examines the causes of the underlying...
