Ronald Reagan
- Opinion
- China relations
One key takeaway from Trump’s China visit should worry Australia
US President Donald Trump went to Beijing in a weakened state. China’s President Xi Jinping took full advantage.
- Peter Hartcher
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Sound of gunfire carries eerie echoes of Reagan shooting
The latest attempted attack on Donald Trump has strong parallels with a former president’s brush with death at the same Washington hotel.
- Del Quentin Wilber
- Explainer
- Trump's America
If Trump really was ‘deranged’, could he be stripped of his powers?
A president can be made to stand aside under the 25th Amendment – but it’s never happened. Who decides if he or she is no longer able to govern?
- Angus Holland
- Opinion
- Real life
It’s 40 years since 1986. Suddenly, I feel very old
Our peers knew us as the Headbangers. My mum joined People for Nuclear Disarmament. Every memory is a timepiece.
- James Hughes
- Opinion
- US politics
Next November, will voters take a wrecking ball to the Oval Office?
Previous presidents learned that large defeats in the midterms elections stops their legislative agenda cold. Could it happen again?
- Bruce Wolpe
Trump declares Canadian anti-tariffs ad invoking Reagan a ‘hostile act’, threatens extra import duty
The US president and Ronald Reagan’s trustees complained that the Canadian-produced ad misrepresented the former president’s full address. Watch these clips to decide.
- Opinion
- Violence
Charlie Kirk was practising politics the right way
The assassinated right-wing firebrand and I were on different sides of most political arguments, yet we were on the same side on the continued possibility of American politics. It’s supposed to be an argument, not a war.
- Ezra Klein
- Opinion
- Trump's America
The Democrats can’t lay a glove on Trump – because they lack what Australia has
For now, Australia’s democracy has Peter Dutton as the main voice of opposition. America’s system allows for no such powerful voice.
- Bruce Wolpe
Inside the Trump-loving gathering that wants to save ‘Austrailia’
It is the world’s largest conservative event, and having succeeded in returning Donald Trump to the presidency, some are setting their sights on Down Under.
- Michael Koziol
- Opinion
- Trump's White House
With God and tech bros on his side, Trump’s ‘golden age’ has just begun
God, the back-again US president and pliant princes from Silicon Valley are the new Trumpian trinity.
- Nick Bryant