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US foreign affairs and the North American neighbourhood

To avoid being a ‘Jurassic Park on the Potomac’, Washington must change its thinking about an increasingly complex world

December 12th, 2024

Democracy and culture

The 2024 Elections: How media fragmentation helped the return of Donald Trump

December 12th, 2024

US foreign affairs and the North American neighbourhood

The rules-based international order will not survive if its institutions only work in powerful states’ interests

December 11th, 2024

Justice and Domestic Affairs

A second Trump term may be very good for the private prison industry

December 11th, 2024

The 2024 Elections

Elections and party politics across the US

The 2024 Elections: What Matt Gaetz’s failed Attorney General nomination may tell us about Trump 2.0

December 10th, 2024

Elections and party politics across the US

The 2024 Elections: Votes cast for Trump over ‘the economy’ may be as much about race as inflation

November 25th, 2024

Elections and party politics across the US

The 2024 Elections: Republicans won big in the Senate—but now they have to govern

November 11th, 2024

Elections and party politics across the US

Elections and party politics across the US

The 2024 Elections: What Matt Gaetz’s failed Attorney General nomination may tell us about Trump 2.0

December 10th, 2024

Elections and party politics across the US

Why voters should care about what ChatGPT tells them about history and politics

December 2nd, 2024

Elections and party politics across the US

The 2024 Elections: Outside the US, most people were not predicting a Donald Trump win

November 25th, 2024

Democracy and culture

Democracy and culture

The 2024 Elections: How media fragmentation helped the return of Donald Trump

December 12th, 2024

Book Review | (Not) Kidding: Politics in Online Tabloids

December 8th, 2024

Democracy and culture

How excluding others has become a winning political strategy

December 6th, 2024

US foreign affairs and the North American neighbourhood

US foreign affairs and the North American neighbourhood

To avoid being a ‘Jurassic Park on the Potomac’, Washington must change its thinking about an increasingly complex world

December 12th, 2024

US foreign affairs and the North American neighbourhood

The rules-based international order will not survive if its institutions only work in powerful states’ interests

December 11th, 2024

The Ballpark podcast interviews

China and technology export controls with Michael Mastanduno and Jennifer Lind | The Ballpark podcast

December 10th, 2024

The Ballpark podcast interviews

The Ballpark podcast interviews

China and technology export controls with Michael Mastanduno and Jennifer Lind | The Ballpark podcast

December 10th, 2024

The Ballpark podcast interviews

America and the Asian 21st Century with Professor Kishore Mahbubani | The Ballpark podcast

November 25th, 2024

The Ballpark podcast interviews

China’s evolving approach to economic security with Professor Yeling Tan | The Ballpark podcast

November 11th, 2024

Economy

How the IRA and CHIPS Act spending on green energy and semiconductor facilities have boosted US manufacturing and employment

December 4th, 2024

Book Review | A Political Theory of Money

December 1st, 2024

Book Review | Should Gorbachev have learned from state-capitalist China?

November 3rd, 2024

Event Reviews

Elections and party politics across the US

The 2024 US election: turning point for America? – LSE Phelan Centre Event Review

November 16th, 2024

Democracy and culture

What is AI doing to America’s democracy? – LSE Phelan Centre Event Review

October 26th, 2024

The Policing Machine: Enforcement, Endorsements & the Illusion of Public Input – LSE Phelan US Centre Event Review

July 27th, 2024

Environment

Book Review | Liberalism and the Challenge of Climate Change

November 17th, 2024

Book Review | The Mediated Climate

November 10th, 2024

Hurricane Helene highlights the need to expand US flood insurance coverage

October 4th, 2024

Urban, rural and regional policies

Book Review | Age of the City

November 24th, 2024

Urban, rural and regional policies

Local organizations have shaped the rightward turn across America’s industrial Heartland

August 5th, 2024

Urban, rural and regional policies

Geographic regions aren’t “left behind” – they’re oppressed and exploited. Restoring them might mean reimagining progress.

July 12th, 2024

Justice and Domestic Affairs

Justice and Domestic Affairs

A second Trump term may be very good for the private prison industry

December 11th, 2024

Justice and Domestic Affairs

What the second Trump administration may mean for federal agencies and their capacity to deliver

December 6th, 2024

Justice and Domestic Affairs

What’s at stake in Trump’s plans for the next four years

December 4th, 2024

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