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In the latest instalment of the USSC's Debate Papers series, we asked Alan Oxley and Stephen Kirchner whether the global trading system can survive the Trump administration's increasing use of tariffs as an...
USSC honorary associate Dr Nicole Hemmer writes in the Washington Post that President Trump's push for 'fairness' on Google searches fits into a long history of Republicans arguing for the regulating of balance...
Stephen Loosley writes that the Australian parliament should consider, in co-operation with the US congress, the establishment of a John S. McCain memorial scholarship, which would enable Australian and American MPs, congressmen and...
The economic damage wrought by increased taxes on international trade is well-known, as is the politics driving such self-destructive policies. Yet the direct costs of these measures are only the start. Just as...
The constant eruption of news out of Washington has forced some commentators into the awkward position of arguing that American policy can best be understood by ignoring what the president says, and instead...
Much turns in American politics with John McCain's passing.
A US Senator since 1986, Senator McCain was the most senior and most trenchant Republican critic of President Donald Trump. He was his party's...
Senior fellow Charles Edel writes in American Interest that there is a growing consensus among Western governments about the risks posed by China’s security, industrial, and commercial policies.
The United States midterm elections are being held on Tuesday, 6 November. This offers the first nationwide referendum on the presidency of Donald Trump. Presidential elections are held every four years, in conjunction...
Guilty verdicts. Guilty pleas. Immunity. It was an eventful week in the judicial system for people associated with the Trump campaign, as investigations into the corruption and criminality of that campaign move forward.
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Digital blackface describes the act of producing, posting or circulating ‘black reaction gifs’ online and especially on social media threads. Someone watching a drama unfold might post Michael Jackson settling into the cinema...
The United States tops the worldwide rank of incarceration. Its criminal justice system holds approximately 0.65 per cent of the US population in state and federal prisons, juvenile correctional facilities and local jails...
AgTech is a nascent industry at the intersection of agriculture and technology. For this reason what is included and excluded in analyses of both the size of the current market and the future...
Uncertainty about the economy and economic policy in Australia and the United States has increased since the global financial crisis. Australia’s high turnover in prime ministers and US political battles over the budget...
The Trump administration’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement was greeted with dismay around the world. Less well known, but probably just as damaging to emissions reductions, was freezing standards for carbon dioxide...
Nicki Minaj’s Queen, an album four years in the making, is the latest in a recent surge of new music from a particular generation of rap titans. In rap’s fourth decade, as the...
Stephen Loosley reviews Pulitzer prize-winning historian Jon Meacham's new book, The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels.
Queensland Senator Fraser Anning’s widely condemned call for a “final solution” to the Australia’s “immigration problem” on Tuesday should not be viewed in isolation. While his rhetoric was stronger than what we’re used...
Washington has long considered Cambodia a strategic lost cause. Yet the country’s Chinese turn should serve as a warning of what China’s growing economic presence, especially in authoritarian countries, will mean for Southeast...
Barriers exist in Australia that are limiting the development and the widespread diffusion of digital agriculture technologies, and therefore the maturation of the sector. Overcoming these barriers by bridging the disconnect of expectations...
It might seem frivolous to point out, given the far more dramatic developments during the current administration, but President Trump is still yet to award any National Medals of Arts or National Humanities...
