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The new US president has moved swiftly - and in familiar form - to outline his priorities for the next four years.
While the president has a broad range of immigration and national security powers, he cannot change US law on his own.
The second Trump presidency is likely to foster instability, uncertainty and fear at home and abroad. But other countries can find common cause to counteract his ‘disaster politics’.
Musicians have largely greeted Trump with the sound of silence – and in doing so, they check the normalisation of the current administration.
Inaugural weekends are snapshots of the cultural and political zeitgeist. How did this year’s compare to those from 2009 and 2005?
An address that’s normally a call for unity instead mirrored the rhetoric of his campaign: unfocused, contradictory and divisive.
Is Trump correct in asserting that NATO has outlived its utility? Or that NATO’s members enjoy a ‘free ride’ on the back of the US? A political scientist examines the evidence.
The new president’s inaugural speech emphasised protectionism, co-operation and, most emphatically, putting America first.
Logical and coherent it was not, but Trump’s first address as president had some striking themes running through it.
Donald Trump will preside over a new American reality as it takes shape. How can we understand it?
What we need now is unblinkered analysis and coordinated progressive political action beyond the extreme centre at both the national and international levels.
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University Lecturer, Leiden University
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Associate Professor of Geography, George Washington University
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PhD Candidate, Department of Comparative Literature and Culture, Queen Mary University of London
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Foundation Member of the First Year College, Victoria University
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Reader in Music, Politics and Society, Newcastle University
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Associate Professor of Rhetoric, Communication Consultant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Associate Professor of Communication Studies and Affiliate Faculty in the Department of Rhetoric and Writing, The University of Texas at Austin
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Associate Professor, City University of Hong Kong
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Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Associate Professor in Global Studies, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Co-Director, USC Immigration Clinic, University of Southern California
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Professor of History and Director of the Global Research Institute, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill