After release of tape recordings in which Nixon ordered the Watergate coverup, he resigned under pressure by congressional Republicans. Today’s GOP had a different response to the Trump tape.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on Donald Trump
Displaying 721 - 740 of 3415 articles
Donald Trump has been a populist president. Understanding populism’s roots in the US and elsewhere is essential for addressing its rise and threat to democracy.
It is often said that Joe Biden’s ability to govern will depend on the outcome of Georgia’s January 5 runoff elections, which determine which party controls the senate. The reality is more nuanced.
Much will depend on Iran’s response to what it sees as Israeli and US provocation, including the November assassination of an Iranian nuclear scientist.
More than 30% of Latinos voted for Trump in the recent elections – a significant result, but not a breakthrough by any stretch, and it can be explained by several factors.
Some downplay seemingly ridiculous white nationalist groups like the Boogaloo Boys at our peril. Looking back at a successful coup engineered by the Ku Klux Klan in Oklahoma shows us why.
Biden’s winning campaign message was one of unity. But even the people who study polarization can’t agree on whether it’s possible to unify the United States.
The messianic language used in relationship to Donald Trump and QAnon conspiracy theories have their roots in Christian expectations of messianic deliverance.
In both countries, neglect and misinformation at the highest levels of government led to undue tragedy.
When a decision is made and people don’t get the outcome they want, they often tend to see it as unfair. Here’s why.
Nonreligious voters overwhelmingly backed Biden in the November presidential race. They also may have been key in several down-ballot state measures, says a scholar of US secularism.
President Trump’s populist control of his party didn’t extend to control in courtrooms where he challenged election results. That’s where the rules of politics met the rules of law, and politics lost.
The president-elect is also likely to be less tolerant of Israel’s settlement expansion and the inroads Russia and Turkey have made into the Middle East.
Throughout his presidency, Donald Trump has exposed the fragility of democratic institutions, mirroring a global trend in authoritarianism, and that will have a lasting effect on the United States.
The pandemic has made politics raw because the impact of political decisions is felt immediately in the daily lives of citizens — and there are winners and losers resulting from those decisions.
Speculation has swirled over whom President Trump may pardon before leaving office. But why do presidents have the right to pardon, and how should it be used?
Four years of ‘America First’ has seen the US retreat from the world. But as a scholar of international relations explains, Biden could return Washington to the role of a more moral global leader.
Though hypocrites seemingly relinquish their moral authority, the trial against Socrates shows us that our favoritism for public figures is stronger than our judgments of their hypocrisy.
In order to establish his legitimacy, President-elect Joe Biden has to accomplish several big tasks.
Fears over the sinister side of artificial intelligence have become reality
Top contributors
-
Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
-
Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
-
Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
-
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
-
Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
-
Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
-
Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
-
Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
-
Professor of Law, Drake University
-
Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
-
Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
-
Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow, La Trobe University
-
Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University
-
Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
-
Chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
