What is it like studying for a year in the US during the Trump presidency? Dr. Melissa Milewski of the University of Sussex talks with four University of Sussex students who recently returned from a year-long study abroad in America about race, education, and people's attitudes in Trump's America. The students share what they experienced on univers…

How do scholars of corruption view Trump and his administration? In this episode, Professor Dan Hough, an expert on corruption based at the University of Sussex, talks to Dr. Melissa Milewski about what exactly corruption is, how Donald Trump fits into definitions of corruption, and how corruption in government can be combatted. The episode also di…

What was the significance of the US midterm elections and how will these elections affect US politics going forward? In this episode, a panel of scholars from the University of Sussex including Professor Steve Burman, Professor Paul Taggart, Dr. Anne-Marie Angelo and Dr. Melissa Milewski discuss the midterm elections, including analysing Republican…

How have lawyers challenged Trump's legal ban and how do they continue to contest his immigration policies in US courts? In this episode, Dr. Anne-Marie Angelo of the University of Sussex talks to Emily Newhouse Dillingham, an attorney at the law firm of Arnold & Porter who has played a key role in this litigation. Dillingham was present on the gro…

How has Donald Trump capitalized on the politics of the border during his election and presidency? In this podcast, Melissa Milewski and Sam Solomon, lecturers at the University of Sussex, interview the founders of the Southwest Political Report, Dr. Irene Sanchez and Matt Sedillo, to discuss Trump and the Southwest. They discuss why Trump focused …

Donald Trump's interactions with foreign leaders are often seen as unique -- but how different are they from past US presidents' foreign dealings? In this episode, Dr. Doug Haynes talks with Professors Clive Webb and Steve Burman of the University of Sussex to put Trump's foreign policy into historical perspective and discuss how Trump's actions ar…

Donald Trump is the second American president to come from the world of celebrity and entertainment, with Ronald Reagan being the first. In this podcast, Dr. Melissa Milewski interviews Daniel Geary, an associate professor at Trinity College Dublin, to discuss how Reagan and Trump's different celebrity backgrounds influenced their elections and the…

During his first year in office, Trump has consistently worked to undo his predecessor's actions. In this podcast, Dr. Doug Haynes talks to two political scientists who are researching political legacies, Clodagh Harrington of De Montfort University and Alex Waddan of the University of Leicester. They discuss how this process of "De-Obamification" …

The recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, exposed the deep divisions in American society over confederate monuments. In this podcast, Dr. Melissa Milewski discusses with Professors Robert Cook and Clive Webb of the University of Sussex why confederate monuments were built, what they symbolize, how African Americans protested confederate mem…

No White House has ever looked like this, with oil giants, generals and party donors rubbing shoulders in the cabinet. In this podcast, Doug Haynes talks to Dan Kryder, Professor of American Politics and Law, Brandeis University, MA, USA, and Fulbright Scholar at the Eccles Centre at the British Library, about the various camps within the administr…

Melissa Milewski discusses with Paul Taggart, Professor of Politics at the University of Sussex, what populism is and how Trump is using it. Paul explains how this inherently American idea has been re-worked by the current president, the challenges of exercising power as a populist, and how Trump's opponents might combat his populism.…

Dr. Melissa Milewski talks to students at the Sussex Centre for American Studies, University of Sussex, to gain some insight as to how Trump is perceived on a British campus.By Trump Watch Sussex