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?
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The mugshot and the meltdown: Trump and US politics
The Republican problem is now a US problem.
8m ago
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.
1y ago
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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January 12, 2021
Stunning democratic wins in Georgia defy history
As the world continues to reel from images of the outrageous assault of the US Capitol by Trump’s goons, history was made in the southern US state of Georgia this month.
December 27, 2020
For US, after a terrible year, perhaps a respite?
Here in America, are we finally beginning to see light at the end of the tunnel?
December 11, 2020
US elections survived a threat, but the future is bleak
The toxic political fallout of the recent presidential elections has truly tarnished America’s reputation.
November 21, 2020
Trump’s enablers – a grave threat to a nation in crisis
President Donald Trump will leave the White House in January, thank goodness. Unfortunately, his malign influence on American politics will remain.
November 9, 2020
Joe Biden eyes arduous path after historic election
Never before has a hard-won victory had such a bitter edge.
October 30, 2020
Thank You, Donald Trump! (And you too, Fox News)
Today, Americans are terrified of a pandemic virus whose infection rate has spiked up again. With just four percent of the world’s population, the US already has a quarter of the world’s Covid-19 deaths.
October 17, 2020
World Bengali Literature Conference 2020
Last year, when about 150 people—a substantial chunk from out-of-state—gathered in Atlanta for a convention, the event had an intriguing twist: The first ever World Bengali Literature Conference, as the event billed itself, focused exclusively on Bangla literature.
October 1, 2020
And you thought the US presidential debate was boring?
US President Donald Trump could give Caligula a run for his money. The deranged, violent Roman emperor had once made his donkey a consul, but Trump is no slouch when it comes to outrageous behaviour.
September 26, 2020
Who’s afraid of democracy?
The sheer brazenness of the Republican volte face following the death of US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is breathtaking. In 2016, eight months before presidential elections, US Senate Republicans balked when US President Barack Obama wanted to fill a vacancy in the US Supreme Court. They invented a new “principle” that in an election year, this should wait until elections.
September 12, 2020
What kind of a rinky-dink democracy is this?
Americans elect their president through a crazy-quilt mosaic of elections conducted by a bewildering variety of local jurisdictions spread out over the entire country, and its wheels may come off come November.
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