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Today digital technology is viewed as additive to the physical world: something that enhances but does not replace the use of physical infrastructure. However, this paper by Hugh Bradlow and Arjun Jayachandra, presented at...
US News & World Report
Research associate Nicole Hemmer explains how Donald Trump is foiling the GOP's efforts to win over Hispanic voters.
ABC The Drum
It's time for the Republican Party to forget about gadfly candidates and take a very close look at genuine contenders like Scott Walker, who could actually keep the Clintons out...
ABC Radio National Between the Lines
Twenty years ago this week, Serbian forces overran the Bosnian town of Srebrenica, expelled its women and children, and massacred 8,000 Muslim men and boys. Research associate...
The Age
Research associate Tom Switzer says President Barack Obama will be remembered for moving the political centre to the left.
US News & World Report
Arguing for a return to traditional marriage is arguing for a return to inequality and coercion, says research associate Nicole Hemmer.
ABC The Drum
Both the greatest asset and the greatest liability for Chris Christie's chance of securing the Republican presidential nomination is Chris Christie himself. Research associate John Barron consider whether the New...
The Australia–US Free Trade Agreement: 10 Year Celebration Conference: remarks by Robert B. Zoellick.
The Lowy Interpreter
Lecturer Malcolm Jorgensen says Barack Obama's struggles to obtain fast-track authority from Congress to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership is indicative of the obstacles the legislative branch poses to coherent American leadership in...
US News & World Report
Research associate Nicole Hemmer says President Barack Obama's Charleston eulogy bookends his Jeremiah Wright speech on race.
The primary challenge to the pivot to Asia comes from other foreign-policy priorities.
The National Interest
A rare moment for bipartisanship in Washington has seen Barack Obama given fast track authority to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership. CEO Bates Gill and research associate Tom Switzer say the agreement...
ABC The Drum
President Barack Obama has announced that the US government will communicate with hostage takers, but this is more about increasing transparency than breaking from the past, says lecturer Gorana Grgic.
US News & World Report
Charleston shooter Dylann Storm Roof found inspiration in apartheid regimes that once posed a conundrum for many on the American right, says research associate Nicole Hemmer.
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...
