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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

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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

The ghosts of 1968 are haunting America, and it will get more spooky

In this epochal year in America of political upheaval, the only thing we should not be shocked about is that there are huge shocks to the country.

  • Bruce Wolpe
Heat of the moment: US president Lyndon Johnson drives through Melbourne on October 21, 1966. A member of his security detail bears the brunt of paint thrown at the presidential limousine by opponents of the Vietnam War.

When a visiting US president got drunk as a skunk at The Lodge

The security arrangements cost millions when a US president visits, but sometimes all the planning comes spectacularly unstuck.

  • Tony Wright
November 24, 1963: John F Kennedy’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, is shot dead by Dallas nightclub owner Jack Ruby as police look on.

The awful truth: Why Americans will continue to kill their children

If Australia had the same population as the US, at our current gunshot homicide rate there would be 444 deaths a year. In the US it is around 20,000.

  • John Silvester
Soldiers play two-up after the ANZAC day dawn service at Multinational Base Tarin Kot, in Afghanistan, on 25 April 2013.

This Anzac Day, lest we forget the brave Afghans who supported our military venture

When Australia quit the Vietnam War, we abandoned locals who had helped us fight the Viet Cong. Let’s not repeat that abysmal record as we depart from Afghanistan.

  • Allan Behm
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On H Street, Washington, DC, only store fronts remain standing, April 1968

Fighting in the streets: a timeline of police violence and race riots in the US

This timeline of major race riots since 1935 highlights only some of the flashpoints in which the anger of black Americans have boiled over to this point.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi stands with House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chair Representative Carolyn Maloney, left, after she signed the resolution to transmit the two articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump to the Senate for trial on Capitol Hill in Washington.

Pelosi doles out the impeachment pens, a signing tradition

Signing pens are sought after in Washington, often framed and hung in lobbies across the city as trophies of proximity to power. Trump has engaged in the tradition himself.

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