The attempted assassination of Donald Trump adds to the long history of presidents and presidential candidates in the United States who have been the victims of gun violence.
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Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and other presidents showed that getting limited information as president can have some benefits – but also risks.
Overseas-based sports betting companies offer wagers in the US on who will clinch a party’s presidential nomination and which candidate will win the election. What does this mean for democracy?
Pulitzer prize-winning journalist David E. Sanger travelled the world with five US presidents, from Clinton to Biden. His new book unpacks the “New Cold Wars” and how they impact the world.
Joe Biden’s refusal to grapple with his looming mortality brings the world dangerously close to another Republican presidency rife with Donald Trump’s many denials and resentments.
Pump prices are a big deal in a country still hooked on fossil fuels.
Politicians often are firmly committed to what they say they will do – until they announce otherwise.
In the ugly spectacle of American politics, it’s hard to keep humanity in sight. But literature, says a poet and scholar of the classics, can remind us of what we know about growing old.
Facing an uproar over use of a private fund to cover expenses, vice presidential candidate Sen. Richard Nixon invoked the family dog, Checkers, to salvage his political career in 1952.
The new British government has been in talks with both Democrats and Republicans for a while already.
Labour’s Keir Starmer becomes the new UK prime minister after 14 years of Conservative rule.
Many people think the first lady is the only person who can persuade her husband to quit his bid for a second term.
The supreme court’s latest judgment gives a US president limited immunity from criminal prosecution for acts committed while in office.
Trump and the movement behind him is both new and old. Times are unprecedented but also, to historians of America, frighteningly familiar. Nick Bryant’s book excavates that history.
What happens if the highest court in the land loses legitimacy?
It’s a unique moment in North America: the prime minister of Canada and the president of the United States are being asked to step aside for the betterment of their parties and their countries.
The president is a stubborn man, but if he were able to annoint a successor, he could salvage a significant amount of his reputation.
US academic Dafyyd Townley watched the debate and gives his rundown of key moments.
The pressure on Joe Biden’s candidacy will now be immense. And whether he can turn it around is much less clear now than it was before the debate.
Scholars of communication and politics assess a presidential debate with a clear loser, but no clear winner.
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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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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada
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Teaching Fellow in US politics and international security, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford
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Professor Emeritus of Communication, American University School of Communication
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Tony Walker AM is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, La Trobe University
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Spécialiste de la politique américaine, Sciences Po
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor of Law, University of East London