The dwindling ranks of those who line up to defend America’s system are able to do so only if they view it through a prism of its lofty 18th-century ideals, rather than 21st-century realities.
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It appears that the days of the stiff upper lip are over – but there are some who will still take the opportunity to criticise.
After years struggling to get gun control measures passed, President Obama is taking dramatic new steps. And the American people seem to be on board.
The violent American militias of the 1990s faded from view long ago – but have they begun coming back in a new form?
George Wallace, Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan all reshaped American elections with their populism. Is Donald Trump just standing on their shoulders?
Will Joe Hockey, a 19-year veteran of the Australian Parliament, be able to navigate an increasingly dysfunctional Washington as ambassador to the United States?
Furious nativist radicals are on the march – but are they really all birds of a feather?
The irascible, unassuming junior senator from Vermont is riding high – and the effect could echo for years to come.
As the debate spreads from Missouri to universities across the country, insights from The Conversation’s coverage of race on campus.
With one year to go till the 2016 election, the candidates for presidency of the United States would do well to see what failure looked like 100 years ago.
The Republican base wants its country back from the “insiders” – by which it means anyone with conventional expertise.
The generation who grew up during the Cold War and came to age through the unrest of Vietnam and the civil rights movement still dominate American politics.
Beards are in. So why aren’t politicians following suit?
Trump is an ad-man’s dream, a candidate who reflects what the best advertisements possess.
Donald Trump provoked the ire of REM frontman Michael Stipe this week after he played an REM hit on the campaign trail. In this push-pull between politicians and musicians, let’s revisit the music.
An individual may remember and forget what he or she likes, but once a version of past events is accepted and shared by a group, as a collective construction, it is on public record.
The ten candidates who made it onto Fox News’s debate stage ranged from the serious to the seriously off-base.
Abolition has become a political football – and many politicians see the advantage of supporting it.
Upstarts on the left and right are proving that people of all political leanings want change.
Fox News and its embrace of the Donald is pulling our national conversation – and the 2016 Republican campaign – to the right.
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