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For now, Australia’s democracy has Peter Dutton as the main voice of opposition. America’s system allows for no such powerful voice.

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With God and tech bros on his side, Trump’s ‘golden age’ has just begun

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Donald Trump’s official presidential portrait.

Trump’s second inauguration won’t showcase America’s strength, but its weakness

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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.

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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.

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President-elect Donald Trump celebrates at the Palm Beach Convention Centre in Florida.

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.

  • Bruce Wolpe
American presidents Abraham Lincoln (left), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, John F Kennedy.

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.

  • Peter Hartcher

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