William Roberts

3 weeks ago | ibanet.org | William Roberts

Then-presidential nominee Donald Trump attends a campaign event sponsored by conservative group Turning Point Action, in Las Vegas, 14 October 2024. REUTERS/Carlos BarriaUS President Donald Trump has begun his second term in autocratic fashion, pushing US constitutional limits and attacking civil society and the legal profession. Global Insight assesses how the country has begun the essential task of protecting its democracy and rule of law.

2 months ago | ibanet.org | William Roberts

Arriving in Washington, DC, new US President Donald Trump immediately began pushing the legal boundaries of presidential authority. At his inauguration inside the US Capitol on 20 January, the President declared he would usher in a new ‘Golden Age’ for America. He promptly staged an executive signing ceremony before thousands of his supporters who’d gathered in a sports arena, delivering on a campaign promise of ‘shock and awe’.

2 months ago | ibanet.org | William Roberts

Illustration by ThiloRothackerDonald Trump’s second term as president may well represent a turning point in the international role of the US. Global Insight assesses the implications. Historians have called the post-war period the ‘American Century’. An ascendant United States took the lead in establishing multilateral governance through institutions such as the UN, NATO and the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Donald Trump’s second term as US president may herald an end to that era.

Dec 6, 2024 | publicseminar.org | Gant Roberson |William Roberts |Teresa Ghilarducci |McKenzie Wark

“The poor people of the world gather together!” (1920) | Unknown artist, Azerbaijan Press Center / CC BY-SA 4.0In the fall of 2024, Princeton University Press published a new English translation of the first volume of Karl Marx’s Capital. The edition’s afterword was written by William Clare Roberts, an associate professor of political science at McGill University and author of Marx’s Inferno: A Political Theory of Capital (Princeton, 2016).

Dec 4, 2024 | ibanet.org | William Roberts

President-elect, Donald Trump. Gage Skidmore/Flickr. Donald Trump no longer faces federal criminal charges in the US after winning election to a second four-year term as president.  Special Counsel Jack Smith has dismissed the charges against Trump for allegedly attempting to fraudulently overturn the 2020 presidential election and illegally retaining classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.