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Nick Bryant is a former BBC correspondent and the author of The Rise and Fall of Australia: How a Great Nation Lost Its Way.

Can Trump survive a Stormy sex scandal? Just ask Bill Clinton

Can Trump survive a Stormy sex scandal? Just ask Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton accustomed the American people to political scandal. Donald Trump may benefit from their consequent ambivalence to politicians behaving badly.

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Why Donald Trump will benefit from the US college chaos

Why Donald Trump will benefit from the US college chaos

A lesson from 1968 – and, indeed, from the 1972 election – is that campus unrest favours the Republicans.

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Civil War is a movie. If Trump wins, will it be a reality?

Civil War is a movie. If Trump wins, will it be a reality?

With the instigator of the Capitol Hill riot standing a good chance of returning to power, the question of whether the US is headed towards Civil War 2.0 no longer feels hyperbolic.

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The bare-chested Forrest Gump factor that could make or break Trump and Biden

The bare-chested Forrest Gump factor that could make or break Trump and Biden

Like the Kennedys who preceded him, Robert F. Kennedy Jr is an attention-grabber, but he’s gathering real traction – especially among young American voters.

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A 170-kilometre-long desert skyscraper? A subterranean city? Inside MBS’s Saudi dream

A 170-kilometre-long desert skyscraper? A subterranean city? Inside MBS’s Saudi dream

Saudi Arabia’s sci-fi-style giga-project is bankrolled by a regime not known for supporting individual liberties, but it has the support of a surprising number of Australians.

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Sam Kerr is the latest victim of Australia’s Ned Kelly syndrome

Sam Kerr is the latest victim of Australia’s Ned Kelly syndrome

Australia asks a lot of its cultural and political icons. No surprise then that carrying the burden of the country’s ambitions is more than enough for any mortal being.

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US politics resembles Jerry Springer. Normal programming may not resume

US politics resembles Jerry Springer. Normal programming may not resume

With the November election set to become a Trump/Biden rematch, US politics not only looks deranged but tired and frail.

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Why our supermarkets are basket cases, according to a former chief lettuce officer

Why our supermarkets are basket cases, according to a former chief lettuce officer

The supermarket wars are not my usual wheelhouse, but I consider myself something of a battle-hardened veteran with combat experience from foreign fields.

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Why America’s historic weakness strengthens Trump

Why America’s historic weakness strengthens Trump

Even Abraham Lincoln had authoritarian tendencies. So we should not be surprised that so many Americans are drawn to Donald Trump’s autocratic flourishes.

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Where does Biden’s latest gaffe rate among the biggest political slips?

Where does Biden’s latest gaffe rate among the biggest political slips?

Joe Biden’s not the first political leader to deliver a real-time blooper, but the US president’s timing could not have been worse.

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Beyond the MAGA moshpit, there are rational voters who back Donald Trump

Beyond the MAGA moshpit, there are rational voters who back Donald Trump

There’s a sense that Trump has assembled a confederacy of the crazy, but the Republican frontrunner is attracting support from other demographic groups.

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