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Meet the renegade voters who could swing the US election at the eleventh hour

Just how powerful are dissenting electoral college voters? Freelance journalist Tom Greenwell asks the question.

States to watch on US election night

Which states are the make or break for each candidate?

Rundle: Clinton's relentless ground game is a thing to behold

This is Delaware County, Republican overall, but with a lot of Democratic and independent patches. And Clinton's team is doing its best to shore up support.

UBI proponent Hillary Clinton.

Trump or Clinton, we've entered a post-truth era, and policy debate is out the window

This US election has been pure political combat, with little to no discussion of actual policy.

Rundle: all US politics is a stage, and all the people in it, merely ... assassins!

Guy Rundle slips through the shadows of Washington, DC, encountering danger at every turn.

Rundle: sorry, Van Badham, but Clinton hasn't been left-wing since the '90s

There was a time when HRC moved leftwards -- in the '60s and '70s. Since then, she's morphed into a kind of "left" neoliberal in matters of free trade. And left "neoconservative" on foreign policy.

Don't believe the hype -- Clinton still odds-on favourite for the White House

Recent discussion about voter polling in the US presidential race has often been misleading.

Rundle: how the Libertarians' presidential dreams went up in smoke

Gary Johnson almost had a shot. And then came "a leppo ..."

Rundle: Trump plays the supervillain, Clinton plays the woman card

It feels like an interminable battle of attrition now.

Big Weed: fear of a budding corporate takeover

As the legalisation of recreational marijuana sweeps through various US states, many people are starting to worry about what a corporatised marijuana industry could mean for public health, writes freelance journalist in the US Max Chalmers.