Democratic candidates support access to contraception, while candidates from the Republican Party favor policies that could severely restrict access to contraception.
Young people can shape election results.
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About 49 million young people are eligible to vote, representing a major potential political force. So, what can universities do to increase their turnout?
Using a new model that considers state-by-state polling, statisticians from Oklahoma State look at who would win the presidential election if it were held today.
The U.S. oil industry is in the doldrums, but there’s not much the next (or current) president can do about it.
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The U.S. energy system is gradually transitioning away from fossil fuels and toward renewables. Will the next president speed up America’s shift to renewable energy or step on the brakes?
The Democrats’ policy platforms address the fundamental issue of Internet haves and have-nots in the U.S. But research suggests just hooking people up to broadband won’t solve the problem.
Donald Trump speaks out against the Iran nuclear deal.
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The candidates differ on Middle East policy sometimes a lot; other times not so much. But whoever becomes president, there is no way that America will stop obsessing about the region.
There’s nothing as certain as death, taxes and a Republican with a plan to cut them. But how do the candidates’ proposals stack up?
Donald Trump has risen to probable nominee status through an extraordinary ability to tap into the deep fears and anxieties of millions of Americans.
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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.
Is it time to think the unthinkable? Could Donald Trump actually become the next president of the United States? He already looks a certainty to become the Republican nominee – something not many pundits…
Political science has held that being moderate gets a candidate votes in the presidential election. So how then do Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump fit in?
All three leading GOP candidates have plans to change the H-1B visa program, though in different ways.
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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
Professor of Economics and Finance. Director of the Betting Research Unit and the Political Forecasting Unit at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University