Hillary Clinton’s ‘slow and steady push’ is hardly inspiring. But it shows she is playing the long game, already positioning herself as the centrist candidate for the election in November.
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The Republican insurgent’s latest foray into geopolitics was even more dangerous than it sounded.
Americans tend to agree inequality is a problem, but Democrats and Republicans have very different ideas about what is causing it and how to solve it.
It could be battle royale for the Republicans at the Ohio convention in July.
Popular wisdom holds that conservatives manage the economy better than their progressive counterparts, but recent data from the US and Australia does not bear this out.
Donald Trump will probably not become US president, but whoever succeeds Barack Obama will have a tough time undoing the damage Trump has done.
It’s a searing response to the great American paradox – and the US climate of suspicion and fear.
If you want to see how dangerous a candidate Ted Cruz is, just take a look at the company he keeps.
It is impossible to know for sure what a Trump presidency would be like. But there are sensible reasons to suspect it could be disastrous – not only for the US but also for Australia.
The US’s long history of inventive campaign soundtracks seems lost on this year’s contenders.
In times of trouble, the Republicans have held together by refusing to attack each other. That’s all gone out of the window.
In an act of defiance, Obama has nominated his choice for the Supreme Court. Perhaps he can learn from Reagan’s spectacular 1987 failure.
Donald Trump saw off one contender, but Ted Cruz and John Kasich fight on. Where will it end?
Speaking to The Atlantic, the president didn’t leave anything out – except the bit where thousands died and millions lost their homes.
Donald Trump is the perfect candidate for an unregulated, competition-driven political news media.
The US’s seventh president was a populist the establishment tried to lock out of the White House. Sound familiar?
Primaries are the ultimate American invention. Unfortunately, they are a terrible invention – they actually destroy the political system.
The media and political establishment have been ready to write off Bernie Sanders for some time. Not so fast.
A lead poisoning crisis caused by corroded pipes has made Flint, Michigan a symbol of American inequality.
The impact of a Trump presidency is basically unknown. No serious candidate in the post-second world war period has been so unclear in their attitude to foreign policy.
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