With the results in, Trump stands proudly on top of what looks like a five-way car crash. What now?
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Donald Trump has applied the lessons of winning a TV audience to politics. Much as we might deplore the theatre of entertaining voters, we can’t wish it away.
America’s way of choosing its president is marred by murky voting methods, a warped calendar, and too much hype.
For 100 years, retail politics has ruled the New Hampshire primary. We may be seeing a new dynamic emerge in 2016.
Our global newsroom responds to the first results in the US presidential election. We hear from scholars in the UK, US, Australia and France.
When it comes to Iowa, separating reality from rhetoric is all but impossible.
The unfolding information about the Zika virus and saddening images of babies infected with microcephaly should really scare us all. The disease has spread “explosively” throughout the Americas, with 32…
It is possible that the major US political parties will nominate a candidate for president who even six months ago was widely perceived as too far outside the mainstream to be electorally viable.
Donald Trump’s decision to sit out Thursday’s GOP debate helped brand him as “anti-establishment.” The fact that Santorum and Huckabee attended his event may help him with Iowa’s evangelicals.
In 2014, voting rates for young people hit record lows. Will things turn around in 2016?
According to an expert in political rhetoric, we shouldn’t underestimate the power of the candidates who can skillfully tap into voter resentments.
Media agencies are fascinated with polls because until there is an election, they have to report something.
America’s presidential election is finally about to formally kick off – with a very strange event indeed.
Insults are tossed about in an election year but the word “demagogue” has a particular bite. But what is a demagogue and how do the 2016 candidates compare with demagogues in history?
The Donald Trump story is one of corporate success – with a little help from family and government.
The leading conservative magazine National Review has played a critical role in creating modern GOP. Their repudiation of Trump signals crisis for Republicans.
Just ask Megyn Kelly of Fox News. Covering the Trump campaign is no picnic. But journalists have a duty to do more than write clickbait stories on the billionaire candidate.
The damage Donald Trump has already done could take decades to repair.
Trying to close a border leads to more smuggling, Saudi Arabia learned. And more smuggling means more human trafficking.
Donald Trump’s support among Republican voters has remained strong even as he has disparaged a variety of groups. Will his support from his business partners do the same?
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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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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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor in U.S. Politics and U.S. Foreign Relations at the United States Studies Centre and in the Discipline of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Professor of Law, Drake University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Dennis Altman is a Friend of The Conversation.
VC Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Lecturer in International Relations, La Trobe University
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Professor of American Studies, University College Dublin
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Chaired professor for Scholarship in the Public Interest in the Department of English and Cultural Studies, McMaster University
