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President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to decimate the Environmental Protection Agency. But a political scientist predicts that while EPA will face budget cuts, the agency isn’t going anywhere.
Why is the country witnessing so much division and violence?
Trump must demonstrate that his presidential decision making will not be influenced by his business interests across the US and the globe.
Pollsters must be as accurate as possible. How will they address the challenges revealed in the 2016 election, and other changes in the coming years?
Exit polling shows that Hillary Clinton actually won the poor and working class vote. If “Make America Great Again” wasn’t fueled by an angry underclass, what powered it?
Women have always had to fight gender rules in order to gain power.
The PM came to power as the anti-establishment candidate. Now he could be the next victim of populist ire.
Trump must now find a way to mitigate national anxieties in the wake of millions of dollars of TV and radio ads that played on voters’ fear and anger.
We have a reliable and easy-to-use test to measure blood alcohol concentration. But right now we don’t have a fast, reliable test to gauge whether someone is too doped up to drive.
The collapse of New Deal-era policies gave rise to deep-seated frustrations. Addressing that anger will require mobilizing workers, business leaders and others to get wages rising again.
Even though commodities rallied after the election of Trump, the benefit of this to Australia’s budget could be short lived due to volatility.
Here are three key areas the Democratic Party must reform if they’re to fix fundamental problems revealed by the shock election result.
Hateful movements were able to grow in the early 20th century because the centre right let it happen.
How does Donald Trump, the son of a millionaire, manage to be an ‘outsider’? A clue might be found in The Apprentice, a melodrama which uses exaggerated emotion to tell the story of an underdog overcoming adversity.
What will Donald Trump do for women as president? Republicans want to curb abortion rights, but Trump could break new ground and win female support by delivering on child care and paid family leave.
Trump won’t be the first president who’s a Washington outsider. To push his agenda through congress, he’ll need his establishment-friendly VP. Will Trump loosen the reins?
Voters in three states approved ballot measures on firearms. So what will these new laws do?
Donald Trump will soon have command of thousands of nuclear weapons. This presents a new and unknown threat to global security - and an urgent incentive for all states to ban nuclear weapons.
By dismissing the votes in June and November as simple ‘disatisfaction’, the political elites face a long walk in the wilderness.
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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
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