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The Australian
Mitt Romney's strong showing in the Super Tuesday primaries this week demonstrated that he will almost certainly be the Republican Party's candidate in November's presidential election, but it will be a...
The Canberra Times
It is entirely fair to say in historical terms this Republican primary has been contested by one of the weakest fields in recent memory. The group has included electoral losers...
The Spectator Australia
In many ways, Mitt Romney is a lot like his father George, who ran as a Republican for the presidency in 1968. Both are handsome, moderate Mormons with a business...
The Conversation Online
Voting in the Super Tuesday Republican primaries has ended in every participating state except Alaska and the results have been mixed. Front runners Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum...
The Conversation
A recent merger between the terror groups al Qaeda and al Shabab has been seen by some commentators as evidence of the groups' weakness, but US Studies Centre Research Associate Leah...
The Australian
Candidates across the political spectrum understand the importance of the Jewish vote, which is small but characterised by high turnout. Jews tend to be strong Democratic supporters, but the US Studies...
ATSE Focus
A sustainable aviation fuel industry would carry great economic, social and environmental benefits, according to Adjunct Professor of the Dow Sustainability Program Susan Pond. Now, with a memorandum of understanding between the Australian...
The Sydney Morning Herald
Rudd's decision to hire a communications expert to run his campaign to regain the prime ministership represents a move to an American style of campaign management, says US Studies...
Eight fickle states will decide the 2012 presidential election.
US action in Afghanistan is stoking the discontent of its nuclear-armed neighbour.
Internet pundits give rare insight into internal party debate.
Although George Kennan predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union, his advice was seldom listened to.
Steve Jobs was a product of his time— ‘60s counter-culture.
Buoyed by the mining boom, Australians reflect on their fortune.
The US Constitution unites the left and right in fundamental disagreement
The Christian right is alive and flourishing in the American body politic
by Margaret Levi
A chapter in Anxieties of Democracy, edited by Ira Katznelson and Partha Chatterjee (Oxford University Press, 2012). This volume is a comparative study of democracy in India and the...
National Review
"Only Nixon could go to China" has become shorthand for a moment when a political leader makes a move that would anger his supporters if taken by someone without his credentials. But...
Hawks are set to steer the GOP’s election-year foreign policy debate
