The 2016 US Presidential Election
The gloves are well and truly off in North Carolina
US Vice President Joe Biden is sick of foreign leaders looking him in the eye and asking whether he can deliver.
In a speech delivered to keep the party faithful knocking on…
'Never Trump': How one Republican foreign-policy expert sees the race
From his vantage point at Duke University, North Carolina, Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Peter D Feaver says exaggerated fears have elbowed out meaningful…
US-Russia rivalry takes the stage
Recent developments in the US Presidential race should put to rest any lingering doubt that one nation’s information warfare capabilities can fundamentally affect the politics of…
Trump: The GOP's wrecking ball
In Utah the independent presidential candidate Evan McMullin - who only entered the race in August - is polling well enough to make both Democrats and Republicans sit up and take…
Republicans play risky game down ballot
Would you jump off a roller coaster ride as the car picked up speed downhill?
Probably not.
But that's just what dozens of Republican candidates did over the weekend as Donald…
What next for the US in Syria: The known versus the unknown
This week the Lowy Institute published a new Analysis by Thomas Wright: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Crisis of US Foreign Policy. In this, Wright drills down into Donald…
The debate that made losers of us all
A good pitch for the next Hillary Clinton advertising campaign might be to highlight the relative ease with which she could approach negotiations with Washington’s fiercest…
What the US pivot to Asia will look like after the election
With the US presidential election just under a month away, northeast Asia faces two very different possibilities over the next four years. Hillary Clinton basically promises the…
How voter turnout could put Trump in the White House
I recently spent a month travelling in the US and the word on the street is that Donald Trump could be the next president.
Before the EU referendum earlier this year, I wrote…
Could Joe Stiglitz be part of another Clinton administration?
A leaked audio recording of Hillary Clinton talking frankly earlier this year about Bernie Sanders' younger supporters as 'the children of the great recession' has been seized…