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We now find ourselves in a ‘post-truth’ environment, trying to find meaning in dumbed-down democracy. How did we get here?
Candidates and campaigns are analyzing voters endlessly this election season. But the internet allows us to turn the tables and obtain a wide variety of data about them, too.
The narrative Donald Trump has played during the campaign is that the elites who have abandoned him or disagree with him are all part of the establishment he seeks to destroy.
People tend to assume that most papers have an inherent bias, so a group of economists looked at what happens when there’s a surprise pick.
Finding a way to reduce inequality is key not only to solving a host of other problems but also to rescuing America’s fast-disappearing middle class.
Utopia and dystopia are combined in current political thinking, from Donald Trump to the universal basic income.
Looming, leering, jabbing and swiping – is Trump’s distinctive physicality messing with voters’ minds?
New data from researchers at Brandeis University suggest that the Jewish vote is important in key Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida counties.
A 1995 tax return shows a net operating loss so large that it raises concerns about whether it was reported properly – and if Trump has been honest about his taxes.
Now that Labor has shot down the government’s proposed plebiscite on same-sex marriage, the issue of marriage equality threatens to haunt Malcolm Turnbull’s prime ministership.
Four years after her famous ‘misogyny speech’ attacking Tony Abbott, Julia Gillard reflected this week on her experience as a woman at the top.
Despite persistent myths that sexual violence and harassment are rare, two recent cases – and the subsequent online response – expose their commonality.
Republicans want voter ID laws. Democrats want more access to the ballot. Why do we have to choose?
Is xenophobic rhetoric enough to get Latinos to turn out in large numbers? An expert on Latino politics explains.
Race to the White House - Episode #5
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This episode of Race to the White House examines the fallout from the second presidential debate and asks whether the Republican Party can transform itself to remain politically relevant.
Donald Trump has used pop culture better than Hillary Clinton because he has made the campaign pop culture: reliant on mass entertainment and social media while lacking any depth.
Trump’s noxiousness aside, it remains the economy, and the Democrats’ abandonment of their traditional base that explains Trump’s ascent, according to American commentator Thomas Frank.
An expert in political rhetoric singles out Trump’s repeated use of reification – the tendency to treat people as things – and the role it’s played in his tortured response to the leaked tape.
As the rest of the world watches the circus that has been the 2016 US presidential campaign, questions about how the elections and candidates are being financed continue to be raised.
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