Surveys show Americans do not believe the political system is serving them. A mathematician of democracy highlights evidence-based changes that could improve matters without tearing the nation apart.
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Political polarization is at an all-time high. Students part of this University of San Diego Kroc School of Peace Studies course examine up close the country’s divides during their journey.
Most Americans actually agree on key issues, including reproductive rights, firearms laws and climate change.
People acknowledging and inspecting their own political biases is one way that they can begin to reduce polarization.
Humans crave certainty in an increasingly uncertain world. Liberal politicians must find a way to provide it.
Now that almost all votes have been counted it’s clear how close this race really was.
Trump has dominated US politics for at least a decade.
Get ready for an alarming future, where truth and science no longer matter.
The Democratic National Committee chair has refuted Sanders’ claim his party ‘abandoned’ the left, saying Joe Biden was ‘the most pro-worker president of my lifetime’. But did workers hear his message?
About 63% of Latino and Hispanic voters in a recent survey said they do not ‘feel like he is talking about me’ when Trump discusses immigration.
His return follows the trail of another American president who rebounded from defeat to victory and then four years of unchecked power.
Donald Trump’s win answered several questions. Will America vote for a Black woman? No. Will Kamala Harris break the glass ceiling? No. Here’s how gender and race played big roles in the outcome.
Trump’s policy agenda has lacked both consistency and coherence. Trying to guess what’s coming next is a fool’s errand.
Scenario planning provides an effective way for Canadian officials to address high levels of uncertainty in the Canada-U.S. relationship. Here’s how it works.
In the rich visual landscape of the 2024 presidential election, here are three images likely to last the test of time.
Donald Trump’s attacks on Kamala Harris expose a worldview that defends whiteness as imbued with dominance over other racial groups.
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.
Using a sheep’s liver to predict the outcome of the US election makes a serious point about how humans have coped with uncertainty throughout history.
The American political landscape now finds itself at a point where difference is seen as antagonistic.
Trump’s comments against immigrants of color have prompted comparisons to the Nazis. But American and British theorists coined the theory of eugenics long before the Nazis rose to power.
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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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Lecturer in American Politics, University College Cork
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
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Assistant Professor, Miller Center, University of Virginia, and US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in American Politics and Foreign Policy, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in American and International Politics, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Nottingham Trent University
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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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Professor of Management, University of Essex
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Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Lead Academic Teacher - Politics & Social Science (Swinburne Online), Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor of Instruction, The University of Texas at Austin