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Working-class and poor Black Detroiters tend to vote inconsistently in presidential elections, but they could be key to winning the swing state of Michigan in 2024.
Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are spending an awful lot of time in Pennsylvania. Why? Because Pennsylvania voters hold one set of keys to the White House.
On Monday, Anthony Albanese, made the message to voters full of angst over the cost of living is that the PM doesn’t want to be out of the country more than he has to be by going to the quad.
President Gerald Ford’s pardon of former President Richard Nixon 50 years ago is seen as a damaging precedent establishing presidential impunity. Now, the Supreme Court has affirmed that impunity.
From inflation to abortion, foreign policy and democracy, the two presidential candidates went at it fiercely during their prime-time debate. Two scholars – of race and of journalism – weigh in.
Democrats have been losing rural voters across the US since the 1960s, and that collapse has fueled Donald Trump’s ‘Make America Great Again’ movement.
Donald Trump often speaks of an America in decline. Kamala Harris counters with a rival emotional appeal centered around excitement and joy.
Trump aggressively supported fossil fuels. The Biden-Harris administration focused on replacing them with clean energy. Yet, data show the US oil and gas industries still thrived under both.
Presidential candidate’s potential ties to an Irish slave owner complicate narratives around colonial legacies and the proper place of Black Irish identity in history.
Three keys to protecting an aging brain are physical activity, intellectual stimulation and annual screenings for dementia.
After the Donald Trump presidency, Kamala Harris joined President Joe Biden in restoring a more conciliatory tone with Canada. But it didn’t really apply to actual policy.
Union voters are particularly significant in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Nevada, three swing states where the share of voters who belong to unions is above average.
The masculinity on display at the Democratic convention was groundbreaking as men − from Joe Biden to Pete Buttigieg to Tim Walz to Doug Emhoff − aimed unreservedly to lift up women as leaders.
In Kamala Harris’s recent appearances, environmental issues have been mentioned only briefly and she seems to be avoiding diving into specifics. The ambiguity is more than likely intentional.
A selection of our coverage of the conflict in Gaza from the past fortnight.
The Democrats looked like they were heading for a big fail at the November presidential election, but momentum appears to be going their way.
The best an opposing party can hope for during convention week is some sort of misfire. But those are rare in this era of scripted conventions designed to minimize controversy.
What happens in the race for the White House could play an important role in what happens in the Middle East.
Outside the song and dance of the Democratic convention, what really changes things are issues that the voters care about.
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Election Analyst (Psephologist) at The Conversation; and Honorary Associate, School of Mathematics and Statistics, The University of Melbourne
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Director of Research, US Studies Centre, University of Sydney
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Professor, School of Public Policy and Administration, York University, Canada
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Professor of International Relations and Security, University of Bradford
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Teaching Fellow in International Security, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Assistant lecturer, CY Cergy Paris Université
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Associate Professor, Westminster College
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Professor Emeritus of Communication, American University School of Communication
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Associate Professor and Director of the Centre on US Politics, UCL
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, University of the Witwatersrand
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Vice Chancellor's Fellow and Professorial Fellow, Institute for Human Security and Social Change, La Trobe University
