Bruce Wolpe
Bruce Wolpe is a Senior Fellow at the United States Studies Centre. He worked for several years on the Democratic staff of the US House of Representatives, and as an advisor to Prime Minister Julia Gillard.
Bruce's recent articles
20 April 2023
The troubled States of America
The two biggest television events of the year so far in the United States have been the all-cable-all-streaming-live-chopper-coverage of Donald Trumps motorcade from Mar-a-Lago to the courtroom in Manhattan where he became the first former president to be indicted. And, in Succession, the death of media mogul Logan Roy on his plane en route to the biggest deal of his life.
24 November 2022
Coming next year: one President indicted, another President impeached
And you thought the big digital entertainment in the months ahead is Donald Trumps return to Twitter.
11 October 2022
OPEC wont back West on Ukraine, hostile to Biden
There will be myriad effects from the decision last week by the OPEC+ oil producers led by Saudi Arabia and Russia to cut production and increase the price of oil.
15 May 2022
Who does the White House want to win the election?
The Alliance is fully bipartisan in Canberra and Washington. It is not subject to which party occupies the White House or has a majority in the House of Representatives in Australia.
26 April 2022
The Politics of Musk
Elon Musks rocket is about to dock with Twitter. Musks deal to take over Twitter, and take it private, is not only at $US 44 billion the biggest business coup of its type of the century so far, but inevitably, given the nexus of Big Tech with Washington, and the role social media plays in our lives and throughout society, it is a political blockbuster as well.
30 March 2022
Can Australia save Americas democracy?
As long as the right to vote is unequally attainable in the United States, full equality for all Americans under the law will be denied.
18 August 2021
Lessons from the winds of war?
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind Herman Wouk, The Winds of War
15 August 2021
Afghanistan falling, a split-screen 9/11
What we see unfolding in Afghanistan echoes 1975 with the fall of South Vietnam and Cambodia after Americas withdrawal.
4 July 2021
High noon for big tech in Washington?
While everyone was riveted on the huge bipartisan deal between President Biden and a group of moderate Republican and Democratic Senators talks that ultimately led to agreement on the largest infrastructure program in US history another drama was unfolding on Capitol Hill in the House Judiciary Committee: the most significant move to bring the antitrust laws to bear on the most powerful companies in America (and the world) since Microsoft was the target of a move to break up its business model 23 years ago.