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Next November, will voters take a wrecking ball to the Oval Office?

Previous presidents learned that large defeats in the midterms elections stops their legislative agenda cold. Could it happen again?

  • Bruce Wolpe

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The ad produced by Ontario used excerpts from a 1987 speech by former president Ronald Reagan. This infuriated US President Donald Trump.

Trump declares Canadian anti-tariffs ad invoking Reagan a ‘hostile act’, threatens extra import duty

The US president and Ronald Reagan’s trustees complained that the Canadian-produced ad misrepresented the former president’s full address. Watch these clips to decide.

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was a close ally of US President Donald Trump.

Charlie Kirk was practising politics the right way

The assassinated right-wing firebrand and I were on different sides of most political arguments, yet we were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics. It’s supposed to be an argument, not a war.

  • Ezra Klein

The Democrats can’t lay a glove on Trump – because they lack what Australia has

For now, Australia’s democracy has Peter Dutton as the main voice of opposition. America’s system allows for no such powerful voice.

  • Bruce Wolpe
Elon Musk says it’s possible to halve the US deficit, and in the process cut interest payments and boost growth.

Inside the Trump-loving gathering that wants to save ‘Austrailia’

It is the world’s largest conservative event, and having succeeded in returning Donald Trump to the presidency, some are setting their sights on Down Under.

  • Michael Koziol
President Donald Trump is having a busy week.

With God and tech bros on his side, Trump’s ‘golden age’ has just begun

God, the back-again US president and pliant princes from Silicon Valley are the new Trumpian trinity.

  • Nick Bryant
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Donald Trump’s official presidential portrait.

Trump’s second inauguration won’t showcase America’s strength, but its weakness

There’s no more meaningful moment in American life than the transfer of power on Inauguration Day. This one will be different, for all the wrong reasons.

  • Bill Wyman

Mission unaccomplished: Why Biden’s legacy’s now at the mercy of Trump

Joe Biden may be remembered as a fine president but his stubborn refusal to pass the torch for so long made it almost historically inevitable that Donald Trump would win again.

  • Nick Bryant
President Jimmy Carter waves to the crowd while walking with wife Rosalynn and their daughter, Amy, to the White House following his inauguration on January 20, 1977.

Jimmy Carter: A challenged presidency, a life of moral courage

He lived for 100 years. While Jimmy Carter could not fulfil his goals as president, the values he stood for – honesty, compassion, morality – endure.

  • Bruce Wolpe
Turkey is often on the table at Christmas.

The roast turkey on grandmother’s table: A Christmas tale for the ages

Christmas turkeys have a long and tough history. They deserve all the pardoning they can get.

  • Tony Wright