Apr 23, 2024 07:58 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Though Hollywood movies about courtroom dramas often glamorize the closing arguments given by lawyers, in reality the opening statement is likely the most important single event of a trial. Such was the case in the hush...
Trump wouldn’t be the first presidential candidate to campaign from a prison cell
Mar 18, 2024 09:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The first trial ever of a former president, the so-called hush money case against former president and likely GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, is scheduled to begin with jury selection in New York on March 25, 2024,...
Mar 06, 2024 22:48 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Donald Trumps political obituary has been written many times. His dominant performance in the Super Tuesday Republican primaries marks one more instance of him outlasting those who counted him out. While Trump has yet...
Feb 20, 2024 11:13 am UTC| Politics
The verdicts keep coming. On Friday US time, the three-month hearing focused on Donald Trumps business dealings in New York came to an end. Trump was ordered to pay back more than $US350 million (A$537 million), plus...
Five reasons why Trump’s Republican opponents were never going to beat him
Feb 20, 2024 11:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Donald Trumps inexorable march to the 2024 Republican presidential nomination has sparked plenty of second-guessing. What could his opponents, including former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and Florida governor Ron...
Donald Trump and the ‘madman theory’ of foreign policy
Jan 26, 2024 11:02 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
With Donald Trump now looking more and more likely to be the Republican nominee for Novembers presidential election, the former president is now making the case that among other things, he would be much more effective than...
Iowa was different this time – even if the outcome was as predicted
Jan 17, 2024 03:44 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Trounced, crushed, routed, dominated: Pick your verb to describe what former President Donald Trump did to his GOP rivals in the Jan. 15, 2024 Iowa caucus. The Conversation U.S. asked two scholars to analyze the results,...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
Why Germany ditched nuclear before coal – and why it won’t go back
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight