Ronald Reagan
Tony Wright’s Column
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.
- by Tony Wright
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Opinion
US Votes 2024
Making the Democrats great again might require a dash of Trumpism
How to respond to Trump’s triumph recalls how the Democrats answered Reagan. Bill Clinton’s election-winning shift had Reaganite notes, but what made for good politics often made for terrible policy.
- by Nick Bryant
Opinion
US Votes 2024
Here’s why Trumpism is the new Reaganism, without the virtues
Ronald Reagan sought to preserve democracy, freedom and liberty. Trumpism resembles none of that – and could well dominate American politics for a generation.
- by Bruce Wolpe
Opinion
US politics
Assassination in the USA: Why does America take aim at its leaders?
Access to guns does not fully explain the intensity of American political violence. There must be something more.
- by Peter Hartcher
Dutton’s climate politics put our children’s future at risk
What appears forgotten in this latest version of Australia’s climate wars is the reason why our planet cannot be allowed to pass 1.5 degrees of warming. At 1.5 degrees we trigger a domino event where a warming planet reinforces further warming that is irreversible.
Opinion
Trump's America
Fasten your seatbelts, this wild ride will Trump anything we’ve seen
Next year will be like no other year we have witnessed in American politics. Trump is, of course, presumed innocent – but now let’s see what the evidence is against him.
- by Bill Wyman
Opinion
US Supreme Court
Supreme Court marches US back in time
It’s yet to be seen how long Americans will tolerate a Supreme Court bound by an ideology inspired by a 250-year-old document, out of step with the concerns of today’s world.
- by Nick O'Malley
Analysis
Glasgow summit
Like Reagan and Gorbachev, Biden and Xi can unite when it matters
While Biden and Xi have berated each other on the world stage, their climate envoys have been working behind the scenes towards common goals.
- by Matthew Knott
John Hinckley, who shot Ronald Reagan, to be freed from oversight
Hinckley was 25 when he shot and wounded the 40th US president outside a Washington hotel in 1981.
- by Ben Finley
From the Archives, 1981: President Reagan shot
40 years ago, just 70 days into his first term, US President Ronald Reagan and three others were shot and wounded by a gunman outside the Washington Hilton.
- by Mike Steketee
Opinion
US votes 2020
My country's moment to mend the soul of a broken democracy
Having worked for two Republican presidents, this expat American watches the US election from her Sydney home and considers the wreckage of four years of Trump.
- by Kim Hoggard
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