Nevada gave Trump his third victory and a widening lead over his GOP rivals. It’s not his conservative values winning votes.
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All the anti-immigrant rabble-rousing appears to be backfiring.
Five takeaways from Trump’s South Carolina win.
South Carolina is a red state. The GOP candidates know that a win here can lead to the party nomination.
When Pope Francis issued his unexpected on the Republican frontrunner, he did little to make the choice facing American Catholics any easier.
Anti-migrant rhetoric is running high in the US – but its star proponent would do well to think about his German roots.
Is ‘chutzpah’ actually – as Ted Cruz claimed – a New York word? And what’s with the candidate’s insistence on distancing himself from New York City?
NH’s election laws allow people to vote in the primaries even if they are not registered with one of the parties. How pivotal are these unenrolled voters? We look beyond the exit polls for answers.
The president gave an encouraging and inclusive speech to American Muslims, but he may have picked up the cause too late.
Ohio Governor John Kasich takes second place in the GOP race while Senator Marco Rubio drops to fifth.
With the results in, Trump stands proudly on top of what looks like a five-way car crash. What now?
Donald Trump has applied the lessons of winning a TV audience to politics. Much as we might deplore the theatre of entertaining voters, we can’t wish it away.
America’s way of choosing its president is marred by murky voting methods, a warped calendar, and too much hype.
For 100 years, retail politics has ruled the New Hampshire primary. We may be seeing a new dynamic emerge in 2016.
Our global newsroom responds to the first results in the US presidential election. We hear from scholars in the UK, US, Australia and France.
When it comes to Iowa, separating reality from rhetoric is all but impossible.
The unfolding information about the Zika virus and saddening images of babies infected with microcephaly should really scare us all. The disease has spread “explosively” throughout the Americas, with 32…
It is possible that the major US political parties will nominate a candidate for president who even six months ago was widely perceived as too far outside the mainstream to be electorally viable.
Donald Trump’s decision to sit out Thursday’s GOP debate helped brand him as “anti-establishment.” The fact that Santorum and Huckabee attended his event may help him with Iowa’s evangelicals.
In 2014, voting rates for young people hit record lows. Will things turn around in 2016?
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Law, Drake University
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
