Rubbishing Rio – someone's got to do it
Aug 05, 2016 00:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics Sports
Unless they start giving Olympic gongs for curmudgeonly whinging, I dont think Im in the running to medal, as we apparently say these days. I realise I should be feeling a surge of patriotic pride and enthusiasm ...
Weiner's erotic mediation: Bill Clinton's sex vs Anthony Weiner's sexting
Aug 04, 2016 10:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Weiner (2016) was one of the more popular documentaries that screened at this years Sydney Film Festival. I managed to catch it last week. Directed by Elyse Steinberg and Josh Kriegman, the film documents the New York...
Radicals in the Democratic Party, from Upton Sinclair to Bernie Sanders
Aug 03, 2016 06:21 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
As we watch Bernie Sanders supporters struggling to come to terms with the nomination of Hillary Clinton, it makes sense to ask why leftists are involved in the Democratic Party in the first place. It started in...
Why Bernie Sanders' supporters should be good losers
Aug 02, 2016 05:36 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
What does it mean to be a good loser in politics? In 2015, I taught a seminar called, simply, Political Losers. In the course, we read about political loss in labor strikes, in social movement campaigns, in elections...
Indonesia's new cabinet built on political transactions
Aug 01, 2016 07:28 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
It is not surprising that the new ministers recently appointed by Indonesian President Joko Widodo still reflect a cabinet of compromise. As a political outsider, the president lacks the support of a strong political...
US Election Series: Betting odds favor Clinton while Trump leads in polls
Jul 29, 2016 09:54 am UTC| Commentary Politics
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump for the first time has taken a clear lead over Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton since the Primaries ended in June. In last 15 polls, conducted since 20th July,...
US Election Series: How the estimated electoral map appears?
Jul 29, 2016 08:49 am UTC| Commentary Politics
To win the White House a candidate needs to secure 270 electorates from a total of 538 available. Details of the final election processare explained here,...