So Boris Johnson’s comeback trail, like that of Liz Truss, runs through Washington, DC?

by Rashmee

Posted on February 2, 2023


On the last day of January, Boris Johnson was wandering around Capitol Hill, meeting and …

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Light starts to dim on the oldie goldies’ era of American politics

by Rashmee

Posted on January 8, 2023


The election of 57-year-old Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the US House of Representatives returns …

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What does taxation have to do with inequality? These countries are working it out

by Rashmee

Posted on May 11, 2021 / The National


The American and French Revolutions are modern history’s most famous examples of popular resistance to …

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Money talks. Mitch McConnell and corporate America’s First Amendment rights

by Rashmee

Posted on April 9, 2021


/ LANGUAGE I thought the Huffington Post offered the most succinct analysis of Senate Minority …

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‘Trump is a political David Koresh’

by Rashmee

Posted on January 9, 2021


In all the commentary on Donald Trump’s incitement of a mob to march on the …

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Even the US doesn’t have a ‘magic money tree’

by Rashmee

Posted on January 3, 2021


I never thought I’d say these words, but here goes: I agree with Mitch McConnell.…

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Georgia 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 …

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Shattered over #RBG but the most tragic fact of all may be her refusal to step aside years ago

by Rashmee

Posted on September 20, 2020


So US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg left a last instruction, dictated to her …

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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