US election: how Trump and his followers use offensive humour to make prejudice acceptable
Feb 20, 2024 11:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Fox News anchor Sean Hannity interviewed Donald Trump in front of a studio audience in Iowa in December 2023. Hannity asked Trump to guarantee he would not abuse his power or seek retribution if he was reelected in 2024....
Feb 20, 2024 11:14 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Reports of the death of Russias most famous opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, in an Arctic prison camp are shocking, but not entirely unexpected. It draws a line under Russias political development over the past two...
Feb 20, 2024 11:13 am UTC| Politics
The verdicts keep coming. On Friday US time, the three-month hearing focused on Donald Trumps business dealings in New York came to an end. Trump was ordered to pay back more than $US350 million (A$537 million), plus...
Five reasons why Trump’s Republican opponents were never going to beat him
Feb 20, 2024 11:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Donald Trumps inexorable march to the 2024 Republican presidential nomination has sparked plenty of second-guessing. What could his opponents, including former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley and Florida governor Ron...
Feb 20, 2024 11:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
On February 20 and 21, Julian Assange will ask the High Court of England and Wales to reverse a decision from June last year allowing the United Kingdom to extradite him to the United States. There he faces multiple...
Who was Robert Badinter, the most important Frenchman you never heard of?
Feb 20, 2024 11:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
At the end of a class on the fundamental principles of law that I was teaching to first-year law students, a group of students approached me and asked: But who is this Robert Badinter you speak of so often? Every time I...
Disinformation threatens global elections – here’s how to fight back
Feb 16, 2024 07:07 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
With over half the worlds population heading to the polls in 2024, disinformation season is upon us and the warnings are dire. The World Economic Forum declared misinformation a top societal threat over the next two years...
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