‘Zohran Mamdani is a successful political entrepreneur — he appeals to the college-educated who aren’t captains of industry’Princeton Professor Gregory Conti analyzes Zohran Mamdani's electoral win, highlighting his appeal to the educated, cash-strapped middle cl...
06 Nov, 2025, 10.42 PM IST
With US in decline, voters who usually avoid extremes are now okay with itZohran Mamdani's New York mayoral primary win signals a potential leftward shift in the Democratic Party, despite right-wing criticism. The...
02 Jul, 2025, 06.28 AM IST
Carney counterpunch: how Canada Trumped Donald's 51st state dream and left Poilievre biting the dustCarney's victory hinged on countering Trump's annexation threats, sparking Canadian nationalism and a Liberal resurgence. Poilievre, mirror...
29 Apr, 2025, 04.10 PM IST
Coming Soon: Pmurt, Trump's arch-rivalTo keep the narrative engaging, strong political figures like Trump may benefit from having an arch-rival, such as the fictional character ...
21 Feb, 2025, 11.30 PM IST
Lockdown captures 2020 in a wordThat it surpassed ‘coronavirus’ in usage shows its bearing on the public’s mind.
12 Nov, 2020, 07.49 AM IST
Trump Trumped, Trumpism lives: Joe Biden will govern a deeply divided nation laid low by virusMany Democrats, including Biden himself, have cast this election as a stark, almost existential choice, with democracy itself on the ballot...
09 Nov, 2020, 11.25 AM IST
Will Joe Biden be able to defeat Trumpism in trade?While India could export in sectors like pharmaceuticals, textiles and clothing, gems and jewellery, machinery and automobiles, its imports...
09 Nov, 2020, 09.10 AM IST
Message of Election 2020: Trump lost, but Trumpism did notIt won in the parts of the country and with the voters whom Trump catered to over four years, constantly jabbing the hard edges of almost e...
08 Nov, 2020, 11.24 AM IST
View: Trump's politics of grievance will outlast him. America’s age of anger is just getting startedThere is little respite from clownish demagoguery once a long-standing political order loses credibility and legitimacy among a significant...
08 Nov, 2020, 10.13 AM IST
Trumpism will outlast Trump, who defied the odds, grew the baseThe tight race came down to late-counted mail-in ballots in Georgia and Pennsylvania, which tipped the election to Biden.
08 Nov, 2020, 12.30 AM IST
A second term for the US president Donald Trump seems a distinct possibility, what will it mean?The American electorate does not seem particularly perturbed about democracy being in danger – a lament of the liberal elites – either.
18 Jun, 2018, 10.46 AM IST
When President Macron's mandarin set the toneUS President Donald Trump is no Herbert Hoover — the only Potus who was a proficient Chinese speaker — so he adroitly showed a clip of his ...
09 Jan, 2018, 10.26 PM IST
Nikki Haley sees herself as heir to Trump, says new bookNikki Haley, the US ambassador to UN, considers herself in line for the White House Oval Office, and is seen in Trump’s circle as ambitious...
06 Jan, 2018, 03.31 PM IST
Trumpism or Brexit will not succeed in reversing the tide of digital globalisationManufacturing is nothing but data. Propaganda, hacking and fake news are no exceptions. The distinction between hardware and software is di...
13 Apr, 2017, 02.17 PM IST
View: Trumpisms and Bushisms constitute the very essence of AmericanismsDonald Trump’s (perhaps) unintended coining of a new word – “unpresidented” – is hardly unprecedented.
22 Dec, 2016, 12.42 PM IST
Donald Trump no solution to civilisational crisis facing the WestIn two years of campaigning for the primaries and the presidential election, Trump exposed himself as a boor, groping womaniser, serial lia...
10 Nov, 2016, 08.02 AM IST
My Word, Brexit Trumps Trumpism‘Throwing shade’ (another contender for 2016’s top word, meaning public expression of contempt) will surely be deemed by some to be but an ...
06 Nov, 2016, 11.40 PM IST