As Trump prepares for his inauguration, the world is preparing itself as it enters the beginning of the second Trump Revolution.
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There is still public hunger for reliable and trustworthy information. This should give news media outlets hope – and inspire them to invest in new ways to reach audiences.
Showing just red and blue states doesn’t paint an accurate picture of national politics.
Voters often reward succes in an election, or put political differences aside. But what are the exceptions?
Elon Musk uses X to amplify Trump’s political messages.
We already have some clues to what the Trump administration will change on space policy.
Following Trump’s election, the price of Bitcoin has broken record after record. Many of his plans have caused excitement in the industry.
We were promised a more progressive future as a result of young people becoming politically active. But then Trump took over the online ‘manosphere’.
Dismissing Jerome Powell would be a serious breach of long-standing norms of central bank independence. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t take the possibility seriously.
Efforts to tackle the climate crisis – both in Australia and globally – are much bigger than one man. Here are ten reasons to remain hopeful.
Philly turnout underwhelms, steel country sides with Trump, and Erie County keeps its bellwether status.
Donald Trump’s triumphant return to the White House is mostly bad news for Anthony Albanese and his government, already facing a challenging 2025 election year.
Voters have cast their ballots. Now the 2024 US presidential election comes down to the Electoral College.
We monitored social media users’ reactions to the fake election bomb threats. The conspiracies emerging paint a bleak picture for democracy.
Musk’s tweets are worth paying very close attention to in order to understand the inner workings of the campaign to return Trump to the White House.
The globally popular virtual gaming platform has now become a place for young people to engage with politics in the real world – including registering to vote.
Trump’s team is already laying the groundwork to weaponise delays in vote counting (and recounting) – though these are completely normal and part of the electoral process.
The vagaries of polling – and, most of all, the vagaries of the US electoral system – mean there is little point attempting to read the tea leaves beyond the broad public sentiment polling captures.
No, it’s not the TV news networks. The presidential election certification process is a lot more complicated than that − and as Americans learned in 2020, it can take a long time.
To discuss the state of the contest and what comes next, we're joined by Bruce Wolpe, senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney.
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Westminster College
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor and Co-Director of the Center for an Independent and Sustainable Democracy, Arizona State University
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Executive Director of the Sine Institute of Policy and Politics, American University
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Professor Emeritus of Communication, American University School of Communication
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Lecturer in International Studies and Politics, Ulster University; Queen's University Belfast
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Lead Academic Teacher - Politics & Social Science (Swinburne Online), Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of American Civics, University of Tennessee
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Clarkson University
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Law Professor in Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, Election Law, University of Memphis
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Professor of Government, American University School of Public Affairs
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Honorary Reader in MIgration and Politics, University of Kent
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Professor of Human Centered Design & Engineering, University of Washington