United States

7 Jul 2020

Flash forward a few months into the very near future and imagine a moment when Trump, having to face up to an election, thinks it might just be better not to have one.

American Dream

Arena Quarterly

Alison Caddick

3 Jul 2020

Not just precarity but destitution threatens under conditions of COVID, and especially in the United States it threatens people of colour.

Sub-Imperial State: Australian Dirty Work

Arena Quarterly

Clinton Fernandes

23 Jun 2020

The instruments of statecraft, as exposed by Brian Toohey and Bernard Collaery, are wielded in the interests of those with real power: elite elements in the private sector and the US national-security state, which defends a global order protective of its interests.

Why don’t American blacks “know they’ve got it good”?

Arena Online

Alison Caddick

9 Jun 2020

Kelly and Sheridan are inclined to have it that the reason for the US protests is in part anguish (over disadvantage) but largely the result of a fashion in political identification: identity politics and the fracturing of the polity/society into incommensurate groupings that refuse to identify with the whole.

Unmasked: Face-work in a Pandemic

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Warwick Anderson

29 May 2020

The vehemence of debates, especially in the United States, over whether to mask or unmask indicates that far more is at stake than simple infection control.