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  • 12 Jan 2021
    • United States
    • The Trump Presidency
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    America’s fantasy hero

    Mubashar Hasan
    Donald Trump’s “reality” does not have to be real, it’s enough to persistently claim and act as though it is.
  • 28 Dec 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Interpreting the 2020 US presidential election

    The Interpreter
    In a year of horrible uncertainty, the political future of a superpower was a big question mark.
  • 18 Dec 2020
    • Asia
    • United States
    • Asia and Pacific
    • Asean
    • China
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Washington’s warped Asia policy debate

    Dhruva Jaishankar
    Whoever Joe Biden puts into key positions, best they make quick studies on regional dynamics.
  • 2 Dec 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    The surprise of Biden

    Erin Hurley
    Written off before he improbably rose to the top, Joe Biden may have the right stuff to lead America through a crisis.
  • 30 Nov 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Donald Trump vs the democratic tradition

    Madeleine Nyst
    By refusing to concede an election he has lost, the American president further undermines faith in the system.
  • 20 Nov 2020
    • Asia
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Back to the future: Will Biden’s Asia policy come full circle?

    Zack Cooper
    Hopes might be high for a new US administration. But polls show views on regional challenges have changed markedly, too.
  • 18 Nov 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    The Democrats’ voter problem

    Victor Abramowicz
    Scraping through what should have been an easy win highlights systemic issues.
  • 11 Nov 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    America’s divisions are real, and not going away

    Erin Hurley
    Yes, Joe Biden won the election. But Donald Trump got 71 million votes, this time running on his record.
  • 11 Nov 2020
    • United States
    • Japan
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Biden’s comfortable style of diplomacy will be welcome for Japan

    David Walton , Akimoto Daisuke
    Fear within Tokyo circles that the US will become “too soft” on China missed the nuance a new administration will adopt.
  • 10 Nov 2020
    • United States
    • New Zealand
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    What does a Biden administration herald for New Zealand?

    Ian Hill
    More congenial relations, certainly, but a competitive diplomatic marketplace in Washington should temper expectations.
  • 9 Nov 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Joe Biden: Big questions and great expectations

    Daniel Flitton
    Will the world be receptive to a US attempt to reassert global leadership after the crassness of Trump’s America First?
  • 9 Nov 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Can Trumpism live without Trump?

    Ben Scott
    Might a more competent Republican leader turn this movement into a far more powerful force? Or will the bloc splinter?
  • 8 Nov 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Can Joe Biden set the stage for a renewal of American leadership?

    Thomas Wright
    Much depends how he adjudicates a growing intra-centrist debate within the Democratic Party on the state of the world.
  • 5 Nov 2020
    • United States
    • Australia
    • China
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    A Trump legacy?

    Daniel Flitton
    Trump or Biden, it’s clear there are far bigger foreign policy contests still to be settled.
  • 3 Nov 2020
    • United States
    • The Trump Presidency
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Blurring fact and fiction in the US election

    Natasha Kassam
    Much of the chaos expected in the coming days and weeks can be tied to the commander in chief’s rhetoric.
  • 30 Oct 2020
    • United States
    • The Trump Presidency
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    America in 2020: The view from here

    Alex Oliver
    A selection of commentary and analysis from Lowy Institute voices on the state of affairs in and beyond the USA.
  • 30 Oct 2020
    • United States
    • North Korea
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Why Kim Jong-un will soon miss Donald Trump

    Khang Vu
    No more squabbles over big buttons, for one thing.
  • 29 Oct 2020
    • United States
    • The Trump Presidency
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Inciter in chief

    Lydia Khalil
    Trump’s pandering to white supremacists and right-wing militias brings a very real risk of violence on election day.
  • 29 Oct 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    US election: A Democratic trifecta is within sight

    Erin Hurley
    Donald Trump’s mismanagement of crisis has swayed voters toward the Democrats. What if they pull off a sweep?
  • 28 Oct 2020
    • United States
    • South Korea
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    How South Koreans view the prospect of a Trump re-election

    Timothy S. Rich , Madelynn Einhorn , Isabel Pergande
    An unpopular President hasn’t dented support for the American alliance.
  • 23 Oct 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    The tyranny of the present: American politics catches up with the past

    John Sexton
    Fusing politics with entertainment, conspiracy theories, hyper-partisanship. Sound familiar? We’ve been here before.
  • 21 Oct 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Donald Trump. Crisis? What Crisis?

    Timothy J. Lynch
    We should be careful of the pre-Trump “world order” nostalgia and not forget the disasters of his predecessors.
  • 14 Oct 2020
    • United States
    • The Trump Presidency
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Reckoning with a post-Trump America

    Erin Hurley
    Donald Trump may soon be out of the White House, but it will take longer to understand what he was doing there.
  • 5 Oct 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Trump gets sick and the media dives into the deep end

    Daniel Flitton
    The reporting of Trump’s health has quickly fallen into the same polarised pattern of so much of his presidency.
  • 2 Oct 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    US presidential debate: Prologue to chaos

    Sam Hendricks
    The bizarre shout fest between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was ugly. It’s going to get worse.
  • 28 Sep 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    A reality show for the US presidential race

    Erin Hurley
    This first debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden promises a collision of two Americas, but little is likely to move.
  • 23 Sep 2020
    • United States
    • The Trump Presidency
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    A reckless president emboldened

    Erin Hurley
    What would four more years of Donald Trump’s leadership look like? Bob Woodward’s new book gives some clues.
  • 20 Sep 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    America’s breaking point?

    Adam Henschke
    The fear is that Trump appoints a judge to decide his electoral fate and then calls on the military to enforce it.
  • 9 Sep 2020
    • United States
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    America: Demographic shift to democratic redemption

    Erin Hurley
    Larger forces at play in the US make this an election more akin to the experience in 2012 than that of 2016.
  • 7 Sep 2020
    • Europe
    • United States
    • Australia
    • Coronavirus
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    Pandemic democracy

    Benjamin Reilly
    Voting is based on trust between citizens and their government. In an age of social distancing, such faith is tested.
  • 3 Sep 2020
    • United States
    • North Korea
    • South Korea
    • The 2020 US Presidential Election

    A Biden presidency and the US–South Korea alliance

    Khang Vu
    Can Joe Biden, if elected, heal the rift between the two countries, or will he make it worse?

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