It is possible that the major US political parties will nominate a candidate for president who even six months ago was widely perceived as too far outside the mainstream to be electorally viable.
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Media agencies are fascinated with polls because until there is an election, they have to report something.
America’s presidential election is finally about to formally kick off – with a very strange event indeed.
The damage Donald Trump has already done could take decades to repair.
Sarah Palin may have been relegated to the fringe, but Trump needs the fringe to win.
2016 will be a year of transitions in the Australia-US relationship. Against a backdrop of change are three important issues: the fight against Islamic State, China, and passage of the TPP.
As he turns his attention to his post-presidency, Barack Obama will wield two more powerful tools: a pulpit and a chair.
The dwindling ranks of those who line up to defend America’s system are able to do so only if they view it through a prism of its lofty 18th-century ideals, rather than 21st-century realities.
It appears that the days of the stiff upper lip are over – but there are some who will still take the opportunity to criticise.
After years struggling to get gun control measures passed, President Obama is taking dramatic new steps. And the American people seem to be on board.
The violent American militias of the 1990s faded from view long ago – but have they begun coming back in a new form?
George Wallace, Ross Perot and Pat Buchanan all reshaped American elections with their populism. Is Donald Trump just standing on their shoulders?
Will Joe Hockey, a 19-year veteran of the Australian Parliament, be able to navigate an increasingly dysfunctional Washington as ambassador to the United States?
Furious nativist radicals are on the march – but are they really all birds of a feather?
The irascible, unassuming junior senator from Vermont is riding high – and the effect could echo for years to come.
As the debate spreads from Missouri to universities across the country, insights from The Conversation’s coverage of race on campus.
With one year to go till the 2016 election, the candidates for presidency of the United States would do well to see what failure looked like 100 years ago.
The Republican base wants its country back from the “insiders” – by which it means anyone with conventional expertise.
The generation who grew up during the Cold War and came to age through the unrest of Vietnam and the civil rights movement still dominate American politics.
Beards are in. So why aren’t politicians following suit?
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Assistant Professor, Miller Center, University of Virginia, and US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of American Politics, De Montfort University
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
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VC Fellow, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in International Politics, University of Birmingham
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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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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Reader in US History, Northumbria University, Newcastle
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Lead Academic Teacher - Politics & Social Science (Swinburne Online), Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Professor of Economics and Finance. Director of the Betting Research Unit and the Political Forecasting Unit at Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
