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Ridiculed and ignored in 2016, what can the ‘dismal science’ offer us now?
German stock market after US election, November 9, 2016.
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As candidate, Trump promised protectionist trade policies and denigrated international agreements. Now, as president of the United States, how far can he go?
German stock market after US election, November 9, 2016.
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The fall of the Berlin wall was supposed to usher in ‘the end of history’, an eternal age of capitalist economics and liberal-democratic politics. It hasn’t turned out that way.
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A future of trade wars and isolationism will not solve the grand challenges which are dragging down fragile economies.
Waiting area in Lagos, Nigeria.
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Britons, Nigerians, Americans and Brasilians don’t see time in the same way. These differences are explained by the history and constraints of each country.
Peace on parade.
EPA/Kimimasa Mayama
Combat could be on the cards for the first time in over 70 years.
Donald Trump’s thumbs up for Taiwan is a sign of things to come.
EPA/Ritchie B. Tongo
Donald Trump looks like he’s gearing up for a trade war with China that has been years in the making.
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt gestures as he answers a question during a news conference in Oklahoma City, Thursday, June 13, 2013.
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Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt has sued the federal government repeatedly. If he becomes head of EPA and tries to weaken environmental laws, opponents are likely to do the same to him.
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Making products in our new economic age is fast becoming a partnership with customers, not just a transaction.
Was Liberal backbencher Craig Kelly right about the relative cost of electricity in Australia and the US?
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Liberal MP Craig Kelly said businesses and households in Australia are paying twice as much as Americans for their electricity. Is that true?
E One
As the film descends into intoxication, viewers are likely to be sobered by glimpses of a badly damaged America.
John Gast’s ‘American Progress’ (1872), depicting the US’s westward expansion.
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The ideology of ‘manifest destiny’ has underpinned centuries of discriminatory legislation and violence against the US’s indigenous people.
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Modesty in your spending (and half an eye on the future) could make you very cheerful indeed.
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Some will be hoping that Trump’s phone call with Taiwan’s leader was a wrong number.
Rosa Parks is fingerprinted by police after refusing to give up her seat.
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How far we’ve really come since two very different individuals took a stand against racism 60 years ago.
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Leadership is an odd thing in a world where people only want their echo chamber defended. The power, and the responsibility, starts to lie elsewhere.
A billboard of US president-elect Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Danilovgrad, Montenegro.
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The world needs great leaders who thrive on making a positive difference to people’s lives and not on festering fear and war mongering.
Clockwise, from left: White nationalist William Pierce, domestic terrorist Timothy McVeigh, white nationalist Richard Spencer, British journalist Milo Yiannopoulos, professor Kevin MacDonald, and Breitbart News founder Andrew Breitbart.
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An academic who has studied the American far right explores whether the alt-right can become a sustained political force.
The United States and Australia should abandon the TPP and focus their efforts on trade deals that take a prudent approach to market access.
Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters
The United States and other countries are right to reject the TPP, but President-elect Donald Trump’s claims about it are misguided.
How might US president-elect Donald Trump address Obamacare’s rising costs?
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Alternatives to Obamacare look to address rising premiums and less consumer choice. What options does the US have and how could they work?