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EU leaders couldn’t pretend to be happy about the result of the US election. It goes against everything they stand for.
Trump’s demagoguery took political discourse in America to a place where it lost contact with reality.
Trump has promised to abolish Obama’s Clean Power Plan and back out of the Paris climate accord. But business could become a key firewall that won’t let Obama’s sustainability legacy die.
Overt discrimination based on race is discouraged in American society. But the bar is lower when it comes to gender bias. The 2016 election is a good case study.
After Donald Trump’s victory, a scholar says the biblical prophets can help show us the way forward: Just as there is no peace without justice, there is no healing without grief.
Australian businesses should wait and rethink long term strategies in response to Trump’s election in the US.
It’s time to reconsider economists’ idea of rationality in the wake of Trump’s election.
Trade bashing is a well-established practice among US presidential candidates. The difference with Trump is that he may actually deliver on his rhetoric.
Diplomacy between Europe and Trump’s administration will be tricky, but not impossible.
If there been an alternative feminist candidate, with a different, more disruptive agenda, we would have a feminist president.
The election of Donald Trump has awoken a streak of authoritarianism in America that is incompatible with it leading with liberal democratic ideals.
Donald Trump doesn’t represent as much uncertainty for markets as you might think.
The US religious right has voted for someone who apparently contravenes some of its core values.
Want to know why Hillary isn’t president? Just turn to the Bible.
World markets bounced back surprisingly quickly after Trump’s election. Here are a few theories as to why.
The polls convinced many that Clinton was headed to the White House. But the polls were misleading – and one behavioral scientist thinks emotion led respondents to mislead pollsters on purpose.
November 9 will likely become the day that the Paris Agreement died, but not when the goal of limiting warming to 2°C slipped out of reach.
Understandably, there is considerable global confusion, and some concern, as to just how Trump will govern.
What can future politicians learn from the president-elect’s social media presence while on the campaign trail?
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations, United States Studies Centre,, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor, Political Science, Emory University
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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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