After Donald Trump’s victory, a scholar says the biblical prophets can help show us the way forward: Just as there is no peace without justice, there is no healing without grief.
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Australian businesses should wait and rethink long term strategies in response to Trump’s election in the US.
It’s time to reconsider economists’ idea of rationality in the wake of Trump’s election.
Trade bashing is a well-established practice among US presidential candidates. The difference with Trump is that he may actually deliver on his rhetoric.
Diplomacy between Europe and Trump’s administration will be tricky, but not impossible.
If there been an alternative feminist candidate, with a different, more disruptive agenda, we would have a feminist president.
The election of Donald Trump has awoken a streak of authoritarianism in America that is incompatible with it leading with liberal democratic ideals.
Donald Trump doesn’t represent as much uncertainty for markets as you might think.
The US religious right has voted for someone who apparently contravenes some of its core values.
Want to know why Hillary isn’t president? Just turn to the Bible.
World markets bounced back surprisingly quickly after Trump’s election. Here are a few theories as to why.
The polls convinced many that Clinton was headed to the White House. But the polls were misleading – and one behavioral scientist thinks emotion led respondents to mislead pollsters on purpose.
November 9 will likely become the day that the Paris Agreement died, but not when the goal of limiting warming to 2°C slipped out of reach.
Understandably, there is considerable global confusion, and some concern, as to just how Trump will govern.
What can future politicians learn from the president-elect’s social media presence while on the campaign trail?
Democrats gained only a handful of House seats in this week’s elections, leaving Republicans in the majority. But can the GOP shift from opposing President Obama to supporting President Trump?
A more muscular foreign policy in our region would carry risks, but it might also show Australia and its neighbours that the US has its interests at heart.
From undetected late swings, to pollster ‘herding’.
If we’re living in a ‘post-truth’ world, the press must take much of the blame.
Since the future is so uncertain, South Africa’s best response to Trump’s election is to learn the lessons of its causes.
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Professor of Law, Drake University
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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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Associate Professor, Political Science, Emory University
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Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University
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Research Fellow, University of Exeter, University of Exeter
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Lead Academic Teacher - Politics & Social Science (Swinburne Online), Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Economics and Finance. Director of the Betting Research Unit and the Political Forecasting Unit at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
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Research Associate, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
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Assistant Professor, Miller Center, University of Virginia, and US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of Markets, Public Policy and Law, Boston University
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Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
