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The Trump campaign is adding groups of untapped, swing state voters to its Trump playbook. A political scientist examines whether the Amish vote in states like Pennsylvania and Ohio can be swung.
Could their affinity for a certain type of television drama help explain why they’re drawn to his rhetoric?
The first Renaissance struggled with the same doubts and uncertainties and blinding possibilities that we face today. Any gains we make will have to be achieved amid relentless shocks.
Aristotle would laugh at Donald Trump – but despite breaking millennia-old rules of political speech, he’s still storming ahead. Why?
If the United States doesn’t ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership, China will be more likely to succeed with its own trade agreement.
Pell Grants, the federal aid program for low-income students, are down to covering only 30 percent of tuition, from 80 percent in the 1970s.
With the DNC email leak and Trump calling on Russia to hack Clinton’s emails, concern about foreign meddling in the 2016 presidential election process is rising. Is e-voting the next cyber battleground?
A German culture scholar looks at how rising fear of terror and a week of violence has affected German media and politics. Will Germany’s open refugee policies last?
Trump’s speech was called ‘dark,’ while Clinton let some optimism in.
The outcome of the US presidential election in November may well hinge on how Americans react to the violence in their country.
Scholars studied every tweet sent and Facebook post made by Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump since before the primaries. Here’s what they learned about issues and negativity.
Party platforms help create parties, not the other way around. A political party expert explains what platforms are, why they matter and for whom.
Digital media has the power to inform, but it is also helping some to spread hate. Have we reached the tipping point between order and chaos at the global level?
The Republicans’ nominee has opened up a huge lead over Hillary Clinton among white voters – but that may not mean much in the end.
Research shows that even people who consciously reject sexism often subconsciously equate leadership with men.
Lucky Luciano, Al Capone and FDR walk into a Democratic convention…
Anyone who still dismisses Donald Trump as a ludicrous amateur should now realise just how dangerous he is.
Even by the standards of the Trump campaign, the Republican jamboree in Cleveland was a sorry spectacle.
Trump appeared surprisingly presidential. According to a scholar of American political rhetoric, there were echoes of Roosevelt, Eisenhower and Reagan.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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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
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of Law, Drake University
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University
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Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
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VC Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
