US politics
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Watch: Late show host Stephen Colbert mocks American Democratic candidates in this searing monologue
Scroll Staff
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Donald Trump’s impeachment verdict mirrors the process that turned ancient Rome into an autocracy
Timothy Joseph, The Conversation
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Is Donald Trump’s America a warped version of Gustave Flaubert’s novel ‘Madame Bovary’?
Susanna Lee, The Conversation
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Donald Trump has been impeached. Now what?
Sarah Burns, The Conversation
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If Trump does get impeached, it would be in spite of the elitist US Constitution
JM Opal, The Conversation
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Takeaways from US midterm elections: Trump’s divisive politics is working
Timothy J Lynch, The Conversation
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Why Catholic intellectuals are overrepresented in the US conservative movement
Gene Zubovich, Aeon
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Thomas Jefferson to Donald Trump, politicians have long used the ‘forgotten man’ to win elections
Donald Critchlow, The Conversation
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Was it right for a White House employee to write an anonymous article exposing Donald Trump?
Andre Spicer, The Conversation
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With Cohen and Manafort both guilty, the pressure on Donald Trump is rising
Timothy J Lynch, The Conversation
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Republican Senator Mitch McConnell is the man who made Donald Trump’s rise possible
Alec MacGillis, ProPublica
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The eugenics and white supremacy link to America’s policy of criminalising immigration
Ian MacDougall, Propublica
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Red states and blue states: How colours took sides in American politics
David Scott Kastan, The Conversation
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Psychographics: The behavioural analysis that helped Cambridge Analytica know voters’ minds
Michael Wade, The Conversation
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The Havana mystery: Inside the investigation into strange illnesses of US diplomats in Cuba
Tim Golden, ProPublica Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica
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Big changes to China’s military leadership at Communist Party Congress could mean more power to Xi
Bates Gill, The Conversation Adam Ni, The Conversation
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#WAR: With Bannon back at Breitbart news, what’s in store for the White House?
Scott Lucas, The Conversation
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Violence in Charlottesville: The history of the statue at the centre of the unrest
Jenny Woodley, The Conversation
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Thucydides’s trap: Is war inevitable as a rising China threatens the United States’ dominance?
Börje Ljunggren
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Who is the mysterious Russian lobbyist who met Donald Trump Jr along with the Kremlin-linked lawyer?
Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica