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The Conversation
The government shutdown has ushered the Tea Party back into the spotlight. Lecturer David Smith says the movement wants to take over the Republican Party, not provide an alternative to it.
The Washington Post
How effectively can organisations take action on behalf of people outside the group? The University of Wisconsin-Madison's John S. Ahlquist and visiting professor Margaret Levi, based in part on research...
The mighty corporations most able to reverse American industrial decline don’t care
The death of the old media business model has led to the birth of several paradigms for journalism: all carry risks and rewards
This strange potpourri of chronologically discordant bits and pieces is incoherent and misleading
The Australian Financial Review
The Texas Republican Ted Cruz would never be blamed for a debt default by America but the GOP blinked and ended up in a worse place than where they...
ABC The Drum Online
The real cause of the latest political crisis to grip Washington was not Obamacare, but the deep rift between the Pragmatists in the Republican Party and the insurgent Tea...
The Conversation
The battle over the government shutdown ended in a stinging defeat for the Republican Party. Research associate Luke Freedman cautions that, though the spat resulted in record-low approval ratings for the party...
The Age and Sydney Morning Herald
The US government shutdown has ended and the debt ceiling has been lifted. Asks lecturer David Smith, was this really a total victory for Democrats?
SBS Online
The government shutdown is less the result of partisan divide and more a feud within the Republican Party. Centre blogger Jonathan Bradley says the dispute results from an increasing alienation conservatives are...
The Conversation
In the lead up to the federal election, Queensland mining magnate Clive Palmer called for an increase in the number of vehicles using ethanol-based fuels. Adjunct professor Susan Pond and Daniel Klein-Marcuschamer...
The Australian
Should Australia continue to invest so much military and political capital in a country with as dysfunctional a government as the United States? The Centre's former acting CEO Alan Dupont says...
SBS News
Given the US stands at the centre of the global economy, senior international economist at Westpac and visiting scholar at the Centre Huw McKay predicts the ramifications of US instability will...
Consumers are overloaded with information yet seem to know less than ever about current events
From the Internal Revenue Service to the Justice Department, the President has enlarged and then unleashed a sprawling bureaucracy that has spun out of control
What accounts for the dramatic shift in favour of same-sex marriage across the United States?
Entitlement spending is on an unsustainable trajectory — reform is urgently needed to deal with an ageing America
The Conversation
What happens when the US hits the debt ceiling? Who exactly is to blame for the legislative gridlock? Research associate Nicole Hemmer explains the details of DC's current crisis.
The Australian
Three years after Republicans took control of the House of Representatives, they've proved that any deadline can be turned into a debacle. Research associate Nicole Hemmer explains why Tea Party conservatives won't...
ABC The Drum
The government shutdown is estimated to be costing the United States $300 million per day. But lecturer Adam Lockyer says another crisis just over the horizon could be much more damaging.
