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In his first address as president-elect, Joe Biden set out a hopeful vision for the future - a restoration not only of national unity, but of America’s place as a respected global leader. One of his main goals, he said, was “to make America respected around the world again and to unite us here at home”.
During Trump’s presidency, as Gorana Grgic writes, Biden spent significant time reassuring American allies around the world that Trump’s America is not “who we are” and pledging “we’ll be back”. Now that he is the president-elect, there is no doubt that many around the world are relieved we will not see another four years of “America First” foreign policy.
But Grgic also sounds a note of caution. After Trump spent four years rolling back US commitments to organisations, deals and alliances around the world, Biden will not be able to fix everything that was broken along the way. America might be coming back, but it remains to be seen whether the world can be convinced the past four years were an aberration.
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Justin Bergman
Deputy Editor: Politics + Society
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Jacquelyn Martin/AP
Gorana Grgic, University of Sydney
America might be coming back under the new US president, Joe Biden, but this is not the same world or the same country it once was.
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William Chittenden, Texas State University
The US economy historically does better under Democratic presidents than Republicans, with far fewer months spent in recession
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Brian J Purnell, Bowdoin College; Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Neta C. Crawford, Boston University
Scholars of race, foreign policy and the Supreme Court give their informed predictions of what to expect under a Biden administration.
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Health + Medicine
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Katie Woolaston, Queensland University of Technology; Judith Lorraine Fisher
Human damage to biodiversity is leading us into a pandemic era. A new report shows we must urgently transform our relationship with the environment.
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Tim Spector, King's College London
Temperature checks have become a commonplace screening tool for COVID-19, but loss of sense of smell is a more predictive symptom of coronavirus infection than fever.
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Politics + Society
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Kester Onor, Covenant University
There is a need for a special unit for civil-military relations as the police cannot deal effectively with protests.
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Cristiano d'Orsi, University of Johannesburg
The situation in Cabo Delgado is dire. The international community needs to act fast to contain it.
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John Ndavula, St Paul's University
More needs to be done to ensure that journalists can do their important work without fear or favour.
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Adam Habib, University of the Witwatersrand
There are individual activists and political groupings who believe violent action is legitimate and use the circumstances to actively drive such behaviour.
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