In the summer of 2007, when I spent many hours talking to presidential candidate Barack Obama about his view of world affairs, I was surprised to find that he looked to the administration of George H. W. Bush as a model of professionalism, prudence, and stewardship of American national interests. For all his own transformational […]
“I’m not yet ready to abandon the possibility of America.” ~President Barack Obama Post the GW Bush era to Barack Obama In the last couple of decades, ever since the George W. Bush administration, we have been witnessing trends in US politics which flow from one end of the spectrum to the other. Conservative to […]
It will be some time before members of US President Donald Trump’s shrinking inner circle publish their tell-all memoirs recounting, in lurid detail, how the White House first reacted when Joe Biden was declared president-elect of the United States. Even as we already have a rough sense of the scale of rage and the swirl […]
When Joe Biden became president-elect of the United States, VP Kamala Harris hit the headlines, as the first Black and South Asian woman in that role. The pandemic and lockdown limited our personal interactions, so people were posting their excitement over Harris’ historic win on Instagram and Twitter. Not only do Black and South Asian […]
A clear majority of Americans and the rest of the world are celebrating Joe Biden’s electoral defeat of President Donald Trump, a man who has done more damage to the United States’ global reputation that any of his predecessors, according to recently published global surveys. Hope in White House leadership and the mythical American Dream […]
If the US presidential election was a test, some people have earned a grade of “C.” As a group, their patriotism is fair. Their civic virtues need improvement. Donald Trump scored especially well with White people without college degrees, earning votes from 67 per cent of men and 60 per cent of women in this […]
At the end of the breathtaking 5-day slog for the US presidency, the Democratic party’s candidate Joe Biden emerged victoriously. With 74 million ballots cast in his favor, Biden received the most votes ever for a US President and flipped Arizona – a Republican stronghold. So why will Biden, the 46th President of the US, […]
In late August, roughly five weeks before Americans went to the polls, a story appeared in The New York Times reporting new data about the reach of fringe US conservative outlets on Facebook. The numbers were staggering. Posts by far-right news site Breitbart had been shared three times as often as posts from the official […]
Indian Americans love Kamala Harris. The daughter of an Indian biologist who moved to the United States and became one of the country’s most respected cancer researchers, Harris embodies the values of hard work, intellectual accomplishment, and political engagement. As a US senator, she pushed for immigration policies favored by the Indian American community, including […]
A Biden White House is likely to oversee a steadier and more coherent China policy than the Trump administration, whose erratic approach careened from President Donald Trump’s fawning praise of Chinese President Xi Jinping—including reportedly condoning concentration camps in Xinjiang—to name-calling and fighting a failed tariff war. A consistent approach will bring more stability to […]