Obama had it right: There is American exceptionalism, British exceptionalism, Greek…
by Rashmee
Posted on July 10, 2022
Ed Luce, the Financial Times’s US national editor, recently pointed out a July 4 editorial …
Read MoreDid Gurnah win the literature Nobel for his prose or politics?
by Rashmee
Posted on October 20, 2021
Researching a piece on the newly minted Nobel literature laureate, I came across a suggestion…
Read MoreFrom Bill Clinton to Joe Biden, America’s climate story is one of dizzying change
by Rashmee
Posted on May 8, 2021
/ FAITH, HOPE… Enough time has elapsed since Joe Biden’s April 22 climate summit for …
Read MoreWhat might the big Biden controversy be? White French cuffs?
by Rashmee
Posted on March 23, 2021
/ POLITICS & AMERICA As usual, Ed Luce of the Financial Times put it best…
Read MoreSlash and burn: Trump’s pyromaniac foreign policy moves on his way out
by Rashmee
Posted on January 20, 2021
Until the end, Donald Trump has remained true to himself (as well as the most …
Read MoreAmerica then and now through the actions of one company, Airbnb
by Rashmee
Posted on January 14, 2021
It was Morning Brew, the smartest and sassiest business newsletter in the world, that …
Read MoreHow will Joe Biden deal with the foreign policy ‘hinge’?
by Rashmee
Posted on December 3, 2020
Henry Kissinger called America’s indecision between its values and its interests the “hinge”. Rightly so. …
Read MoreBolsonaro sheds crocodile tears for Trump. Don’t cry for him, Brazil
by Rashmee
Posted on November 23, 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s public truculence about dealing with a new US president who is …
Read MoreGeorgia on our collective, climate-conscious mind
by Rashmee
Posted on November 16, 2020
President Joe Biden will be in office, come one-minute past noon on January 20. The …
Read MoreNow, for that other major election – in Myanmar
by Rashmee
Posted on November 8, 2020
Today, Myanmar goes to the polls for only the second time in a decade. Roughly …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK