Will the US and UK's support for Israel backfire?
There are growing signs of substantial public disaffection in these two nations which have been conspicuous in refusing to take Israel to task for its slaughter.
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Putin’s interview and the West’s extraordinary outrage
The media’s job to interview geopolitical adversaries.
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Trump’s impunity and the Republican Party meltdown
Trump is more a symptom rather than the cause of the current political crisis in the US.
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Why did the US almost shut down?
I heard that the US government was about to shut down because it was running out of money. How is that possible?
7m ago
The mugshot and the meltdown: Trump and US politics
The Republican problem is now a US problem.
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Tucker Carlson and the murky state of US media
Tucker Carlson, the recently fired US cable television talk show host at Fox News, was quite a force to be reckoned with. Until, he was fired.
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Trump’s arrest adds fuel to fire in hyperpolarised US
Republicans are locked in a Faustian embrace with Trump, and the arrest is likely to make that embrace tighter.
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The deadly, murky history of the rules-based order
This month provides a harrowing historical landmark of what an ugly turn that order has taken in the past.
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June 6, 2021
Sobering lessons 100 years after the massacre of African Americans
Racism is America’s original sin. Its manifestations are myriad, and notwithstanding occasional spurts of progress, the struggle for justice continues to be an uphill battle.
May 23, 2021
Domestic cracks in blanket US support for Israel
No child, Palestinian or Israeli, whoever they are, should ever have to worry that death will rain from the sky. How many of my colleagues are willing to say the same, to stand for Palestinian human rights as they do for Israeli? How many Palestinians have to die for their lives to matter?”
May 8, 2021
In fond remembrance of the colossus of Bengali cinema
Dear Satyajit Ray: Happy 100th birthday, maestro.
April 17, 2021
A US battle between democracy and the fear of it
Hello from Georgia, ground zero in a massive US political battle.
April 1, 2021
A plan that serves the people and a party that doesn’t
"Socialism is a scare word they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. Socialism is what they called public power.
March 13, 2021
A historic, trillion-dollar triumph for Biden and US
Despite razor-thin majorities in the US Senate and the House—where corralling lawmakers can be as frustrating as herding cats—Biden has managed the near-impossible task of steering through Congress a massive USD 1.9 trillion bill about to profoundly change America.
February 21, 2021
The promise and challenge of Bangla in the digital age
Every Ekushey, we renew our pledge to the language martyrs of 1952 that we will ensure that our beloved Bangla continues to flourish. To redeem this pledge, we need to remember a critical fact: The continued survival of a language depends on how well it adapts to the changing technologies of the age.
February 20, 2021
The strange kabuki of the trial of Donald Trump
The trial of former US President Donald Trump in the US Senate had all the hallmarks of a Shakespearean tragedy. The Democratic impeachment managers put together a chilling case proving Trump’s complicity in the January 6 assault on the US Congress.
February 6, 2021
A traveler’s adventures in Covid testing
During a recent round-trip from Atlanta, US to Dhaka, Bangladesh, I had wildly contrasting experiences in the two cities as I tried to get tested for Covid-19.
January 23, 2021
Biden’s balm of normalcy soothes US
America’s quadrennial celebration of peaceful transition of power is one of its more hallowed traditions.
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