Texas attorney general is no lone star despite legal woes

by Rashmee

Posted on May 27, 2023


As I headed to Texas from Arizona, the very Republican state certainly had that orange …

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Why BoJo’s Dallas dinner with Trump didn’t make the NYT

by Rashmee

Posted on May 26, 2023


As I headed to Texas from Arizona, so it seemed had Donald Trump. And Boris …

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The reason Ron DeSantis bangs his not very big drum on the big world stage

by Rashmee

Posted on April 28, 2023


It says something that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis ended his four-nation ‘world tour’ in London …

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As Trump was arraigned, a strange thing seemed to happen to Marjorie Taylor Greene

by Rashmee

Posted on April 8, 2023


Here’s an odd thing about “arraignment eve”, to use Semafor’s term for the …

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What happened in Manhattan was not a patch on events in the Midwest

by Rashmee

Posted on April 5, 2023


While much of the world watched the Donald Trump show, one state in the American …

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Trump indictment and the problem with journalists writing for the history books

by Rashmee

Posted on March 31, 2023


Journalists can be acerbic about each other’s work, sometimes with reason. So to Jonathan M …

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Nikki Haley: ‘Proud daughter of Indian immigrants — not Black, not white…different’

by Rashmee

Posted on February 15, 2023


Nikki Haley, former South Carolina governor and US ambassador to the UN, and current candidate …

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New year, same old problem across the pond?

by Rashmee

Posted on January 6, 2023


It’s reasonable to look at the US Capitol, where the newly Republican-controlled House of Representatives …

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2022 was cruel but there are reasons to be cheerful about 2023. Happy new year

by Rashmee

Posted on January 1, 2023


As the old year died, it was hard to shed too many tears for it.…

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Prometheus unbound & Peter Thiel: Squidgy ideas inform hard push to disruption in US

by Rashmee

Posted on November 30, 2022


The hard business of supporting nationalism, conservatism and libertarianism in the United States these days …

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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