What is a contested convention – and what would one mean for the GOP?
Apr 08, 2016 09:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
The possibility that the Republican primary race could end in a contested convention is a journalists dream and one that the media has speculated on during every electoral cycle in recent memory. It was entertaining for...
Panama Papers will do little to dent the electoral ambitions of Le Pen and FN
Apr 07, 2016 05:48 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Marine Le Pen is among the latest prominent figures to be swept up in the Panama Papers scandal. But anyone hoping that this scandal can halt the rise of her far-right Front National movement has seriously underestimated...
Hillary Clinton as president will not necessarily be a feminist coup
Apr 07, 2016 05:41 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Donald Trumps colourful tilt at becoming the Republican candidate for US president has somewhat overshadowed the tensions emerging in the Democratic race. A female president is obviously long overdue, so there is pressure...
Can the ANC survive the end of South Africa's heroic epoch?
Apr 07, 2016 05:27 am UTC| Politics
outh Africas governing African National Congress (ANC) has gone through episodic crises in its century of existence. Right now, the media and commentariat are seized with debate about whether or not it is in a crisis and...
When covering elections, journalists face a debilitating dilemma
Apr 07, 2016 05:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Last week, President Obama criticized journalists covering the election for the practice of drawing false equivalences between competing claims made by politicians. If I say the world is round and someone else says its...
Winning Wisconsin won't fix Bernie Sanders' superdelegate problem
Apr 07, 2016 05:17 am UTC| Politics
Bernie Sanders is on a roll. He has won 6 of the last 7 Democratic nominating contests, including an impressive victory over Hillary Clinton in the Wisconsin primary on Tuesday. He outraised Clinton by US$15 million in...
Labor takes lead in Newspoll as state income tax plan bombs
Apr 07, 2016 00:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
This weeks Newspoll is the first since Turnbull became PM to have Labor in front, by a 51-49 margin, a 2% gain for Labor since last fortnight. The catalyst for this change was probably the state income tax plan that was...