Visible Minorities: Life Under a Mad King
The world is living under a rogue regime—or rather, a rogue individual—who is wielding unprecedented power.
Tag Archives: US Congress
Visible Minorities: Viewing DOGE from the Inside
Interview with a civil servant to get an insider’s perspective on what’s going on at DOGE.
Visible Minorities: How Trump Survives Scandals
Even after the most disastrous first hundred days in modern American presidential history, many people still do not see the damage being done to American democracy.
Student Loan Crisis: Democrats Abroad Go With the Status Quo
Student debt policy helps answer the question whether the US Democratic Party has a mere messaging problem or has indeed abandoned millions of Americans.
Visible Minorities: Trump’s Weak Mandate
What happened was less a matter of support for Trump and more a worldwide repudiation of incumbents.
Why Trump Won
In a stunning reversal, Donald Trump won the popular vote in the November 2024 election, leading a Republican wave that took control of the presidency and both chambers of Congress.
Visible Minorities: Kamala Harris and Shorter US Elections
Could the Harris campaign be a case for a new playbook streamlining the wasteful American political process?
Yemen Strikes Revive US War Powers Debate
The US Biden administration couldn’t resist the temptation to launch major military strikes against Houthi forces in Yemen. In doing so, it brought renewed attention to the fact that the presidential exercise of war powers has become routinely unconstitutional.
Israel Lobby Aims to Eliminate Progressive Lawmakers
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), the main pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States, is reportedly gearing up an effort to entirely eliminate progressive lawmakers from the House of Representatives in the 2024 election cycle with over US$100 million in planned spending.
US Establishment Losing Its Proxy War in Ukraine
The US political and media establishment is beginning to wake up to the fact that, having lost the Iraq War and the Afghanistan War, it is now on the path toward losing its proxy war in Ukraine as well.
