Donald Trump’s consistent attacks on the US justice system may have done significant damage.
Donald Trump leaves the Manhattan courtroom after being found guilty on all 34 counts in his hush money trial on May 30, 2024.
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The New York conviction of Trump is unlikely to end the legal saga, which could quickly be appealed and possibly rise to the level of the US Supreme Court.
Donald Trump speaks to the media after his conviction on 34 felony charges on May 30, 2024.
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Both sweeping immunity and overzealous prosecutions of former leaders can undermine democracy. But such prosecutions pose different risks for older democracies like the US than in younger ones.
Former U.S. President Donald Trump returns from a break in his hush money trial at Manhattan Criminal Court, May 28, 2024, in New York.
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The intersectionality of hate, which combines racism, antisemitism and misogyny, leads the white heterosexual male to believe that he is a victim of the “minorities” he must resist.
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Ideas used by conspiracy theorists hark back to those of 17th-century philosophers such as René Descartes.
Former President Donald Trump, accompanied by attorney Todd Blanche, speaks to the media outside Manhattan Criminal Court on May 21, 2024.
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Closing arguments tell the jury why the evidence is believable or not, how the facts are linked or not and, most importantly, why their decision to either acquit or convict is moral and just.
Somali Americans cast their early votes at the Lansing city clerk’s office on November 2, 2020, in Lansing, Michigan.
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Since 1992, Michigan voted reliably for Democratic presidential candidates. Then Donald Trump won the state in 2016, followed by Biden’s 2020 win in the state. Michigan is a ‘battleground state.’
Asian American studies courses are beginning to draw from more disciplines.
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After decades in the shadows, Asian American studies has expanded on college campuses.
Former U.S. president Donald Trump speaks to the media at the end of the day during his trial for allegedly covering up hush money payments.
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Is Donald Trump the poster boy for the Dark Triad personality type? Or will his social bonds — if he has any — save him, and the world, from his worst instincts.
The early timing of Biden’s move, changing supply chains and national security fears suggest the tariffs might work this time, at least for a while.
Michael Cohen leaves his home to attend his second day of testimony at Manhattan Criminal Court on May 14, 2024, in New York City.
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Ardent segregationist Lester Maddox became governor of Georgia after earning the admiration of white voters by refusing to integrate his chicken restaurant.
Protesters across the street from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968.
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There are many parallels between 1968 and today: an unpopular war, a vulnerable Democratic presidential candidate and a divided America.
Donald Trump, with his lawyers, talks to the press pool outside a Manhattan criminal courtroom during his hush-money trial on May 3, 2024.
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Former President Donald Trump has made some inroads with voters of color by appealing to law and order, conservative social values and mistrust of government.
Winning on Election Day is the best path for any political party to remake the Supreme Court.
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When it comes to the Supreme Court, progressives are now in the position where conservatives found themselves for many years. They’re on the outside looking in.
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