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 …
Read MoreThe 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 …
Read MoreVirginia’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, …
Read MoreAnti-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 …
Read MoreTrump 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 …
Read MoreAre 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 …
Read MoreTwo ‘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 …
Read MoreIn 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, …
Read MoreRashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK