Angry outbursts may have derailed any other politician – but not Trump.
Academic rigour, journalistic flair
Articles on US politics
Displaying 341 - 360 of 727 articles
The US president’s use of Twitter usually appears bonkers. But was there method to his madness?
Russian media both hint toward the Russian regime’s prowess in influencing the US election, while simultaneously treating the accusation as baseless Western propaganda.
Jeff Sessions wants prosecutors to ‘charge and pursue the most serious, readily provable offense.’ That’s a step back to our failed experiment in mass incarceration.
A century after his birth, John F Kennedy’s celebrity shines as brightly as ever.
The investigation is likely to end in one of two ways: the end of Donald Trump’s presidency, or the beginning of his second term.
The US president’s sharing of sensitive information with the Russian foreign minister is not only inept, it shows an alarming lack of understanding of Russia’s role in the Syrian conflict.
And the president could learn plenty from the fate of a complacent Richard Nixon.
Having campaigned on a promise to focus on problems at home, Donald Trump is realising how important the US’s global supremacy is.
Democrat Jon Ossoff will face Republican Karen Handel in a runoff on June 20.
The Supreme Court’s public reputation is strong in part because people see it as less political than other government branches. What can text analysis tell us about how accurate that perception is?
Freedom of protest and dissent could not be more fundamental to the American project. Is it in mortal peril?
People worry Washington is losing respect for science and even the centuries-old scientific method. Two climate scientists explain how science can be done when talking about the future.
The religious right’s leaders are old men, and the generation coming up behind them is something quite different.
The idea that violence is acceptable when levelled against tyranny is a core American belief.
Twenty years ago, the paranoia that consumed cults like Heaven’s Gate existed on the margins of American society. Now it’s moved toward the center of the nation’s political life.
The slow drip of leaks about the Trump team’s Russian connections has given way to something much more threatening.
Revenge is sweet – but if the Democrats indulge in it, they could dramatically weaken a whole branch of the US government.
More and more people are talking about the ‘rural-urban divide,’ but what does that phrase actually mean? We asked experts from around the country to illustrate the gap in graphs and maps.
The US president loves to boast about his impact on the US economy. But he’s a bit premature.
Top contributors
-
Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
-
Assistant Professor, Miller Center, University of Virginia, and US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
-
Associate Professor of American Politics, De Montfort University
-
Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
-
Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
-
Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow, La Trobe University
-
Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Birmingham
-
Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
-
Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
-
Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
-
Professor of Management, University of Essex
-
Reader in US History, Northumbria University, Newcastle
-
Lead Academic Teacher - Politics & Social Science (Swinburne Online), Swinburne University of Technology
-
Professor of Economics and Finance. Director of the Betting Research Unit and the Political Forecasting Unit at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
-
Professor of American and British Studies, University of Oslo
