Bruce Wolpe
Bruce Wolpe is a senior fellow at the United States Studies Centre. He has served on the Democratic staff in the US Congress and as chief of staff to former prime minister Julia Gillard.
Opinion
Foreign relations
Is Albanese dining with the next US president? There are wildcards on the menu
Joe Biden is handling global crises well, but there is no guarantee he will be the Democratic nominee for the next presidency.
- by Bruce Wolpe
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US politics
Trump’s shameless moxie is making America hate again
At the heart of America’s current congressional and constitutional woes is one destructive, immovable force: Donald Trump.
- by Bruce Wolpe
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US politics
Trump’s martyrs or American traitors? Just imagine that assault on our parliament
How can hundreds of Trump’s supporters be convicted and go to jail, but the man in whose name they acted not be accountable under the rule of law?
- by Bruce Wolpe
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US politics
Despite the world’s worst mugshot, Trump is still in the frame for president
The only person who can stop Donald Trump’s run for the presidency right now is Trump.
- by Bruce Wolpe
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Biden's White House
America doesn’t want Biden or Trump, but one of them will win in 2024
US voters would prefer younger options for president than Joe Biden and Donald Trump, yet the reality is that Biden remains the Democrats’ best hope.
- by Bruce Wolpe
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Julian Assange
Australia’s pleas to release Assange could fall on deaf American ears
Anthony Albanese and others have made impassioned statements pressing the US for the Wikileaks founder’s release. But the political landscape in Washington remains daunting.
- by Bruce Wolpe
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Donald Trump
Trump boasted he could shoot someone and not lose a vote. What about a sex abuse finding?
The former president is somehow able to defy political gravity that would claim other mortals. It is astonishing.
- by Bruce Wolpe
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US politics
Trump and New York: If they can break him there, they can break him anywhere
The Manhattan DA’s indictment against Trump connects the dots between the former president’s sleazy personal past, his maverick business practices and his thirst for political power.
- by Bruce Wolpe
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Joe Biden
Biden will say the state of the union is strong, but that’s a stretch
The US President’s key set-piece speech will be delivered this week to a Congress as divided as the country it serves, and amid deep concerns over China.
- by Bruce Wolpe
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US politics
Could Trump get a surprise bump from an indictment?
After the FBI raided the former president’s home in Mar-a-Lago to recover hundreds of secret government documents, he got a surge in support. He seeks the same result now.
- by Bruce Wolpe
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US midterm elections
There’s a big Republican winner, and his name is not Trump
Even if Republicans edge over the line in both the House and the Senate, this is a staggering defeat for Donald Trump and his hand-picked candidates. Florida governor Ron DeSantis may well be anointed as the next Republican presidential candidate.
- by Bruce Wolpe