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A retired federal judge sheds light on what’s going on in Judge Lewis Kaplan’s courtroom during the latest trial involving former President Donald Trump.
Cuba’s economy – saddled by US sanctions and ill-timed reforms – is in dire straits.
The former president leads his only remaining Republican rival, Nikki Haley, by 68% to 12% in an aggregate of national polls.
A New Hampshire election and politics expert agrees that independent voters are important in the state’s primary − but they shouldn’t be misconstrued with people who are registered as undeclared.
The first shoe has dropped in the Supreme Court’s process of considering whether Donald Trump is eligible to be president.
Nikki Haley is the latest American female politician to shift her language, depending on whom she is talking to and where. But this tactic has a flip side, prompting criticism of her as inconsistent.
Iowa and New Hampshire have long cemented their status as the first-in-the-nation deciders in presidential nominating contests. This outsized influence has increasingly come under scrutiny.
From the ‘static’ polls to Trump’s ‘dissing’ of voters, two political scientists look at the Iowa caucus and see more than just the fact that Trump won it, resoundingly.
Donald Trump may be the GOP’s frontrunner, but there’s a good reason why President Biden wants to face him in November’s presidential election.
In more than a dozen countries this year, populist leaders are poised to either take power or consolidate their hold on the opposition. Migrants are the unfortunate target of populist ire.
The Iowa caucuses have long been an oddity in modern-day politics but remain a place where GOP candidates can test their presidential aspirations.
The result confirms the vast majority of Republican voters are still infatuated with the former president, despite his legal troubles and how little campaigning he’s done thus far.
The Undertow tells how the cultural divisions in American society could allow events like the Capitol storming to happen – and how, despite this, Trump is the Republican frontrunner for president.
The summer break hasn’t changed the Freshwater polling figures for the two major parties federally. Overseas, the former US President is in a strong position ahead of the Iowa caucus.
Despite what January polls suggest, in a Donald Trump vs. Joe Biden rematch in November, a result similar to 2020 would be probable: a big Biden vote lead and tight state-by-state battles.
Donald Trump’s foreign policy plans include forcing an end to the Ukraine war and moving thousands of troops to the Mexican border.
Biden and Trump are polar opposites when it comes to policy. But they have wielded the power of the presidency in similar ways.
Independent candidates have had significant power to affect the result of presidential elections in the past.
Why do so many Americans share the concern that success and integrity are in conflict, as if one comes at the expense of the other?
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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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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Professor of Law, Drake University
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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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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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
