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Trump, Iran, and limits of presidential power

Trump appears to have entered the Iran conflict with a certainty that he could control its trajectory. But wars have a way of slipping beyond the control of those who start them. (Bloomberg)

Updated on Mar 31, 2026 15:11 IST

MAGA narrative on H-1B has done lasting damage

The turning point came in September, when Trump issued a presidential proclamation imposing a $100,000 fee to process new H-1B petitions. That marked a clear escalation. (REUTERS)

Updated on Dec 30, 2025 15:30 IST

MAGA vs America First threatens Trump’s agenda

The challenge ahead for Trump is not just defeating the Democrats, but reconciling a base increasingly divided between loyalty and ideology, grievance and governance. (Reuters)

Updated on Nov 26, 2025 15:54 IST

Whose America is it? In US, Indians face the heat

The Indian American community has risen in political influence too. With six members of Congress, numerous statewide officeholders, and even a former vice president of Indian descent, Indian Americans are more visible than ever before. (AFP)

Updated on Oct 28, 2025 15:04 IST

H-1B mess is set to kill US tech’s golden goose

The new policy is not only a setback for India but also a self-inflicted wound for America’s own innovation ecosystem. The role of H-1B workers in powering Silicon Valley’s meteoric rise is undeniable. (Bloomberg)

Updated on Sep 24, 2025 14:38 IST

Trump’s mercantilism risks America’s global leadership

In Trump’s worldview, allies are “freeloaders” unless they meet his transactional benchmarks, and trade deficits are inherently bad, regardless of whether they reflect healthy economic specialisation. (AFP)

Updated on Aug 18, 2025 15:18 IST

Indian Americans fret over Big Beautiful law

While the bill’s sweeping provisions will affect virtually all Americans, immigrant communities, including Indian Americans, are poised to face a wide range of challenges due to its provisions. (AFP)

Updated on Jul 30, 2025 15:27 IST

Trump vs Musk: Perils of confronting POTUS

There’s also an instructive — and cautionary — lesson here for Democrats eager to welcome Musk into their fold. (AFP)

Updated on Jun 18, 2025 14:36 IST

America will have a price to pay for targeting campuses

Much like the administration’s tariff policies, the crackdown on F-1 visa holders could have long-term negative consequences (REUTERS)

Updated on May 3, 2025 13:42 IST

America must continue to build networks, not walls

The Trump administration seems determined to apply an outdated industrial-age playbook to a 21st-century digital economy (AP)

Updated on Apr 1, 2025 15:01 IST

Trump upends Washington with chaos & consternation

Marco Rubio, US secretary of state, from left, US President Donald Trump, and Pete Hegseth, US secretary of defense, during a cabinet meeting at the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. Elon Musk's demand that more than two million federal employees defend their work is facing pushback from other powerful figures in the Trump administration, in a sign that the billionaire's brash approach to overhauling the government is creating division. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg (Bloomberg)

Updated on Feb 27, 2025 14:52 IST

H-1B debate is a vote on America’s future

The H-1B visa programme has been instrumental in driving the growth of America’s tech industry over the past four decades (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

Updated on Jan 29, 2025 15:03 IST

Democratic Party needs to chart a citizen-centric path

The Democrats must grapple with the perception of being out of touch with what issues matter most to the majority of Americans and/or where Americans stand on those issues (REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 27, 2024 13:31 IST

Independent voters in swing states will decide US elections

People cast their ballots during early voting for the US general election at the University of Michigan Museum of Art Gallery in Ann Arbor, Michigan on October 31, 2024. (Photo by JEFF KOWALSKY / AFP) (AFP)

Updated on Nov 1, 2024 15:54 IST

Trump vs Harris battle is more than an election

FILE PHOTO: U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. August 20, 2024 and former U.S. President Donald Trump in Bedminster, New Jersey, U.S., August 15, 2024 are seen in a combination of file photographs. REUTERS/Marco Bello, Jeenah Moon/File Photo (REUTERS)

Updated on Sep 20, 2024 16:10 IST

Harris’s candidacy is a symbol of US progress

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks at a campaign event at Hendrick Center for Automotive Excellence on the Scott Northern Wake Campus of Wake Tech Community College in Raleigh, N.C., Friday, Aug. 16, 2024. AP/PTI

Updated on Aug 18, 2024 18:09 IST

How Indian Americans are shaping the future of the US

San Francisco: Indian-Americans gather outside the Consulate General of India in support of India, in San Francisco, USA. (PTI Photo (PTI)

Updated on Jul 16, 2024 15:20 IST

Trump trial will change US politics, presidency

CONCORD, NORTH CAROLINA - MAY 26: Former U.S. President and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump raises his fist as he looks on during the NASCAR Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 26, 2024 in Concord, North Carolina. Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Jared C. Tilton / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Updated on May 27, 2024 16:37 IST

What Baltimore tragedy says about ocean trade

The collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge lay on top of the container ship Dali, Monday, April 15, 2024, in Baltimore. The FBI confirmed that agents were aboard the Dali conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)

Updated on Apr 20, 2024 16:37 IST

Nikki Haley’s future is in good hands, hers

Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley speaks on stage at her watch party during the South Carolina Republican presidential primary election in Charleston, South Carolina, U.S. February 24, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Updated on Mar 30, 2024 16:20 IST

What a Biden-Trump rematch entails for the US

After Trump lost to Biden in 2020, many believed that his political career would come to an end (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, REUTERS/Russell Cheyne/File Photo)

Updated on Feb 19, 2024 16:41 IST

Indian Americans ready for a bigger political role

Republican presidential candidate businessman Vivek Ramaswamy speaks at a campaign event, Friday, Jan. 12, 2024 in Des Moines, Iowa. (AP Photo/Abbie Parr)

Updated on Jan 23, 2024 08:36 IST

Illegal, uncared for: The other Indian Americans

People from the Indian American diaspora pose for a picture as they hold a unity rally ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's historic visit to the United States, in Washington on Monday. (ANI Photo)

Updated on Dec 18, 2023 11:43 IST

US walks the thin line on Canada-India rift

In reality, the India-Canada dispute came at a very inopportune moment for the US

Updated on Oct 1, 2023 15:00 IST

Green card backlog is hurting US innovation

File photo of a US visa.

Updated on Sep 3, 2023 13:01 IST

Indian Americans must back affirmative action

The argument that Asian Americans face discrimination in school admissions contradicts the evidence.

Updated on Jul 22, 2023 18:35 IST

Lax gun control in the US is birthing a tragedy

Americans need to choose between the second amendment and the constitutional rights of all American citizens

Updated on May 28, 2023 10:09 IST

The influence of US as a global leader is waning

Now the US dominance is threatened by China, the second largest economy in the world. What is undermining a US-dominated world order, however, is not just the rise of China and the Sino-Russian alliance, or the de-dollarisation drive, but also dwindling support for a US-led order domestically. (REUTERS)

Updated on Apr 4, 2023 14:00 IST

How tech layoffs will affect the H-1B worker economy

This reduction in workforce has occurred across the US, especially among the tech behemoths.

Updated on Feb 17, 2023 14:07 IST

G20 presidency: A crucial responsibility

The G20 summit will be the biggest multilateral event held in India in four decades, the last being the 7th summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in 1983 (ANI)

Updated on Dec 31, 2022 15:18 IST

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