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Donald Trump’s Hitlerian speeches of injustice, retribution portend gloomy presidency
November 22, 2023, 2:53 PM IST
Donald J Trump was visibly enraptured by the sight and sound of main battle tanks and fighter jets. Seated beside his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron on the 100th anniversary of Bastille Day on July 14,…
November 22, 2023, 2:53 PM IST
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Who’s the Loser Now: Murdoch news organisations and The Donald
November 16, 2022, 4:56 PM IST
When the anticipated “red wave” turned out to be a disappointing little puddle on election day, it was bound to have brought out the knives from Republican supporters. Even so, the pace at which Rupert…
November 16, 2022, 4:56 PM IST
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Did the Trump era, kickstart America’s decline culminating in the Afghanistan fiasco? A hypothetical analysis
September 17, 2021, 10:36 PM IST
(The unilateral US power was already under decline since the last decade. The Trump era accelerated the same. Trump took the isolationist route annoying allies and straining global power structures. The Afghanistan fiasco is a…
September 17, 2021, 10:36 PM IST
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FROM TOI PRINT EDITION
An American dystopia: QAnon represents perfectly the paranoid streak in US politics that Trump embraced
March 1, 2021, 2:30 AM IST
In 1964 Richard Hofstadter, a noted historian from Columbia University, published an essay in Harper’s Magazine, The Paranoid Style in American Politics. In this essay, which has become justly famed over time, he argued that…
March 1, 2021, 2:30 AM IST
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Negative lessons for the world from the U.S.
January 17, 2021, 11:16 PM IST
The US political establishment faces the delicate task of balancing the need to move forward from a divisive election and hold to account those who attacked American democracy. The first step in this dual act…
January 17, 2021, 11:16 PM IST
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Even if Democrats control US Senate, progressive Biden policies may be opposed by a few of his own party Senators
January 7, 2021, 8:59 AM IST
If the two US Senate seats from Georgia are won by the Democrats, as indicated by the voting trends, the US Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may no longer be able to throw a spanner…
January 7, 2021, 8:59 AM IST
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US: Democracy Wins, Subversion Loses
December 15, 2020, 10:55 PM IST
Joseph R Biden, Jr was officially declared the 46th President of the United States of America on Monday after he and running mate Kamala Harris secured 306 electoral college votes, 36 more than the 270…
December 15, 2020, 10:55 PM IST
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Lesson from the US in judicial independence
December 13, 2020, 11:19 PM IST
US President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the presidential election that rendered him a one-term president and gave the presidency to Joe Biden have been terminated by the US Supreme Court. It…
December 13, 2020, 11:19 PM IST
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Game over but Trump refuses to bow out with grace
November 15, 2020, 6:31 PM IST
It has taken a plague on the epic scale of the bubonic plague to get rid of the American Ceasar. It’s so ironical because it was a plague that he spurned and disdained and denied that…
November 15, 2020, 6:31 PM IST
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Joe Biden, Buy Out Covid Vaccine IPR
November 11, 2020, 11:07 PM IST
In his conversation with leaders of close allies from Europe, President-Elect Joe Biden has made it clear that the US would reverse course from his predecessor’s America-first isolationism. ‘We’re going to be back in the…
November 11, 2020, 11:07 PM IST
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Beware, Dems Are Coming!
November 10, 2020, 6:45 PM IST
You know the story thus far: Democrat Joe Biden won but Republican Donald Trump doesn’t believe it. The next few weeks could be muddy. But as they say, in the end the process is bigger…
November 10, 2020, 6:45 PM IST
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A tough clean-up act for Biden-Harris
November 8, 2020, 11:39 PM IST
Joe Biden has achieved his goal. As President Donald Trump spent his time raising unfounded allegations of voter fraud and intimidation of Republican Party poll observers at counting stations, votes cast by Americans in key…
November 8, 2020, 11:39 PM IST
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Biden’s ability to reach out to those in distress and comfort them sets him apart
November 8, 2020, 6:53 AM IST
Empathy (the ability to understand and share the feelings of another person) is the one quality a President Biden will have and which President Trump was often accused of lacking not just by political opponents…
November 8, 2020, 6:53 AM IST
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Biden can’t be FDR. He could still be LBJ
November 7, 2020, 5:33 PM IST
Anand Giridharadas writes for The New York Times Let’s never do that again. Soon, it appears, the worst president in modern American history will resume private life. Everyone who favors the rule of law, decency…
November 7, 2020, 5:33 PM IST
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It’s Endless Election Night in America
November 7, 2020, 9:48 AM IST
If he hasn’t yet thought of doing so, Borat (Sacha Baron Cohen) should do a spoof in his own inimitable way on the Great US Elections of 2020. Like Draupadi’s sari, the 2020 US election…
November 7, 2020, 9:48 AM IST
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FROM TOI PRINT EDITION
Fighting Trumpism: It has transformed frustrations into a nihilistic anger. But it is not the real America
November 7, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
Donald Trump may lose the election, but Trumpism will remain triumphant. His support base has not wavered despite his chaotic presidency and disastrous handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. It is manifested in the GOP staving…
November 7, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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It’s the Final Countdown…
November 5, 2020, 10:08 PM IST
Don’t count on America. Frankly, that’s the only message we should gather from the US election process. You won’t get 20th century Austrian-British philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein and 21st century American philosopher of German descent in…
November 5, 2020, 10:08 PM IST
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‘In Democracy We Mistrust’
November 3, 2020, 7:21 PM IST
James DeMonaco’s 2013 The Purge has a simple premise: in a very near-future United States that is very similar to today’s real one, once a year every year all kinds of crime – arson, theft,…
November 3, 2020, 7:21 PM IST
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FROM TOI PRINT EDITION
A great white coup: Why voter repression tactics perfected by segregationists are flourishing in the US today
November 2, 2020, 2:30 AM IST
A coup, by its very nature, involves an element of surprise. Typically, it is a sudden, illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power by a political or military leader, often through violent means. Occasionally, there occurs a…
November 2, 2020, 2:30 AM IST
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FROM TOI PRINT EDITION
Tale of two elections: With President Trump trailing in the polls, he holds an emergency meeting that wasn’t
November 2, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
Trump: Hey fellas, now listen, I can’t be seen to be losing to an old guy like Biden. I mean, he’s even older than me, for god’s sake. We gotta do something. Aide 1: Mr…
November 2, 2020, 2:05 AM IST
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