New books by George Megalogenis and Paul Strangio consider 21st century Australia: a time of rapid social change with many politicians stuck ‘in a white-bloke past’.
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Asylum seeker policy showed toughness in one small, but highly visible, part of the system while creating room to loosen policy everywhere else.
The Twilight of Exceptionalism is a story of problems unsolved and potential unfulfilled.
The concept of ‘civilisation’ emerged in the 18th century – and it has been cursed from the very start.
Wilson clashed with Lyndon B. Johnson on a personal level but made sure that the US and UK still cooperated where it most mattered.
Unlike the Conservatives, Labour doesn’t have a history of toppling prime ministers.
Most coalitions are marriages of convenience for power, but the Liberal National arrangement continued even in opposition. Some time apart may be beneficial for all.
Trump has spent the first year of his second term pushing the limits of presidential power. He’s the latest in a long line of leaders who try to bypass Congress.
Australia’s history is full of eccentric MPs, including serial quiz show contestants and a prime minister who pumped iron for God.
The Liberal Party used to lead the way on female representation and socially liberal policies. History shows us where the party’s “women problem” began.
Australia’s earliest female political aspirants were staunchly independent, setting up a tradition that would remain more than a century later.
From handling town hall hecklers to swaying voters through podcasts and online algorithms, Australian election campaigns have transformed in recent generations.
Effective Republican organizing and intraparty divisions among Democrats solidified GOP political dominance until the 1930s.
Amid picking fights internationally, Donald Trump has been chipping away at the DoJ back home. It’s resulted in firings, resignations and accusations of dirty deals.
Anthony Albanese won’t want to be the leader of the first incumbent government not to be re-elected after its first term since the 1930s, but it’s an uphill battle.
Major election polls got it wrong in 2016 and again in 2020. The fault lies with the complexity of the American system and also with certain shortcomings of the polling institutes themselves.
The most politically divided time in US democracy coincided with a boom in new communications technologies, confrontational political influencers and widespread disinformation. It wasn’t 2024.
Walz, who is set to debate JD Vance on Oct. 1, comes from a particular kind of progressive politics in the Midwest, united under the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party.
At the time of independence, Pennsylvania was also at the geographical center of the 13 original Colonies. It remains a focal point of American politics, and a swing state.
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.
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