America’s scary times don’t end with Halloween

by Rashmee

Posted on November 7, 2022


Until recently, it was tempting and deeply comforting to think that America’s election-deniers were just …

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The US right’s response to Orban’s playbook

by Rashmee

Posted on May 23, 2022


Viktor Orban’s message to the American right is a crash course on the great replacement …

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Virginia’s Youngkin and the Republicans who are ‘strangers in their own party’

by Rashmee

Posted on October 11, 2021


Having recently been in Virginia, where the gubernatorial election campaign is in full swing, …

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Anti-abortion, pro-gun laws aren’t progressive but are they strictly anti-democratic?

by Rashmee

Posted on August 5, 2021


/ POLITICS & AMERICA The other day Ed Luce, the Financial Times’s US editor, warned …

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Trump vs the People: Even a low-energy autogolpe can be dangerous

by Rashmee

Posted on December 12, 2020


On Friday, December 11, the US Supreme Court finally pronounced on a matter that I’m …

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Are America’s Demcrats pro-worker or pro-wealth?

by Rashmee

Posted on December 11, 2020


Are America’s Demcrats pro-worker or pro-wealth? The question has taken on outsize importance in the …

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Two ‘I’s currently seem to define America

by Rashmee

Posted on February 6, 2020


Iowa and impeachment. In the first week of February, an impeached American president was acquitted …

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In lieu of flowers, please do not vote for Donald Trump. What an obit

by Rashmee

Posted on January 27, 2016


Chiropractic Jeffrey H. Cohen’s obituary, published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette just a few days ago, …

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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