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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Goodbye 1968, and all that?

by Rashmee

Posted on May 22, 2022


We owe it to The Washington Post to join the dots in what Hungary’s Viktor …

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Trump-lite is flavour of the month

by Rashmee

Posted on November 4, 2021


Axios said it the days of the Virginia gubernatorial election. The Atlantic said it the …

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The French Trump?

by Rashmee

Posted on October 25, 2021


Journalists know that artful comparisons are excellent shorthand to convey nuance. So Bassem Youssef is …

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The California story

by Rashmee

Posted on September 15, 2021


The funny thing about California’s recall election is its sad build-up. There were occasional mentions …

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Keeping up appearances…in Afghanistan

by Rashmee

Posted on August 17, 2021


Joe Biden has a lot of incoming, as we used to say when we were …

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Half-a-year in, what about Joe-plomacy?

by Rashmee

Posted on July 25, 2021


/ POLITICS & AMERICA Joe Biden hasn’t been US president very long but six months …

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Trump’s accords were smoke and mirrors

by Rashmee

Posted on May 18, 2021


/ POLITICS & AMERICA Like almost everything else Donald Trump did, the Abraham Accords were …

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Joe Biden’s plan to build…hope

by Rashmee

Posted on April 3, 2021


/ FAITH, HOPE… Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan is America’s first major fiscal investment plan in …

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Biden wants the US to be a values-driven leader but is the world buying it?

by Rashmee

Posted on February 16, 2021 / The National


This weekend marks US President Joe Biden’s first month in the Oval Office, which means …

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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