By Professor Kevern Verney, Associate Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Edge Hill University Media images of Trump rallies for Republican candidates in the midterm congressional elections are commonplace. Addressing…Read More >
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The Partisan Politics of the Franchise in the Age of Trump
by Richard Johnson, Lecturer in US Politics, Lancaster University A full analysis of American politics is incomplete without understanding that the United States has undergone a profound intensification in racially…Read More >
Trump’s White Coalition Holding Firm Approaching Mid-Term Elections
by Professor Lee Marsden, Professor of Faith and Global Politics, University of East Anglia We are now just weeks away from the midterm elections in America which will determine who…Read More >
Supreme Controversy: Reagan and Trump
by Professor Iwan Morgan, Professor of United States History, University College London In my chapter for Mara Oliva and Mark Shanahan, eds., The Trump Presidency: From Campaign Trail to World…Read More >
Trump: unique in style but not substance?
by Professor Mark White, professor in history, Queen Mary University of London Since spring 2018, many of the themes of Donald Trump’s early presidency continue to be evident. But there…Read More >
Justice is as Justice does?
by Mark Shanahan, Political Historian, University of Reading Fred Vinson died on September 8th 1953 of a heart attack. In the days when people drank hard and smoked harder, his…Read More >
Is the Trump administration getting East Asia right, or just confusing it?
This article is written by Mara Oliva, University of Reading and was originally published in The Conversation. Despite Donald Trump’s unilateral and belligerent campaign rhetoric, his administration’s foreign policy began…Read More >
Trump needs to look to history to deal with Mueller
Over the last sixteen months, the Mueller investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 elections has, arguably, become the biggest talking point of the Trump administration. It may well be…Read More >
Anglo-Iranian Collaboration: The IRD and SAVAK
In September 2014, the then British Prime Minister, David Cameron, met with the Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, as part of attempts to improve Anglo-Iranian relations. The meeting in New York…Read More >
Welcoming the happy traveller
Donald Trump will touch down in the UK on Thursday afternoon, following what’s already a fractious NATO summit in Brussels, and arriving amidst ongoing political ‘turmoil’ (his term) for Prime…Read More >