Ronald Reagan
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
Latest
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
LETTERS
Letters
Should youth be putting work before education?
Readers give their views on the push to allow younger teenagers to meet a worker shortfall, the shortage of nurses, the stage 3 tax cuts, and Shaquille O’Neal’s support for a Voice.
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: Ronald Reagan survives assassination attempt
On March 30, 1991, US President Ronald Reagan, although seriously wounded, survived an assassination attempt by a lone gunman who fired six shots from a range of three to four metres.
- by Creighton Burns
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
From the Archives, 1980: Reagan in landslide US election victory
Forty years ago, ex-actor and Republican candidate Ronald Reagan, 69, humbly accepted his biggest starring role yet: President of the United States.
- by Mike Steketee
Opinion
US votes 2020
Trump's illness has upended the election, but there will be more surprises
That the virus seems to be claiming more of his circle, including former adviser Kellyanne Conway, is especially alarming.
- by Bruce Wolpe
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