We’re under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy… It’s a war from within…. …We should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military… — President Donald Trump at Military Leaders Gathering at Quantico In 2025, America is at war. It is not a confrontation with other countries but a war with itself. It is war being contested to see whether this nation will remain a democracy or become an autocracy. It … [Read more...]
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Frank blogs regularly for the Huffington Post and writes occasional columns and articles for publications such as the International Business Times and The Economic Times of India.
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The One Big Beautiful Bill is Bountiful and Beastly
On July 4, President Donald J Trump signed his signature piece of domestic legislation, the so-called One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB). There’s no doubt Trump thought the bill was beautiful at the time. Polling indicates, however, that the majority of Americans didn’t see it that way. CNN and KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) polls conducted in July, after the OBBB became law, showed more than six in 10 of those surveyed disapproved of it. The … [Read more...]
H-1B mess is set to kill US tech’s golden goose
Last Friday, just as Americans were winding down for the weekend, the White House dropped a shock-and-awe measure affecting many leading US businesses. On that day, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation announcing a staggering $100,000 fee on H-1B visa for each employee hired under the programme, effective September 21. This H1-B proclamation could be extremely problematic for the technology industry in the US and India and strains the already strained relationship between the … [Read more...]
The Supreme Court’s Rights and Rules
Over the past few years, the U.S. Supreme Court has elevated the rights of some and subjugated the rights of others. Two of the primary beneficiaries of the court’s rulings have been the Supreme Court itself and the presidency of the United States. Those who have seen their rights reduced include: Women with the 2022 decision in the Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization case, which eliminated the constitutional right to an abortion that … [Read more...]
A Day to Celebrate American Workers–and Immigrants
That was the opening line of our Labor Day blog last year. Because of the American performance in the Olympics in 2024, we focused on celebrating the work of the American athletes, and the connection between their Olympic spirit and the spirit of those American workers “committed to excellence in all lines of work.” We went on to state that those workers: … are on the playing field and the battlefield; on the shop floor and in the office, in the classroom and the … [Read more...]
Trump’s mercantilism risks America’s global leadership
“I have a chronic, incurable trade deficit with my barber,” prominent Washington Post columnist George Will told HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher last week. “Once a month … I buy a haircut from her; she buys nothing from me. She has a trade deficit with Iowa because she buys corn products and pork. And no Iowan ever comes to Washington to get a haircut. Amazingly, it works — somehow!” Nothing captures US President Donald Trump’s approach to trade better than Will’s quip, … [Read more...]
The Need for More Responsive and Responsible Higher Education
As we wrote in our blog preceding this one, since returning to office on January 20, Donald Trump and his administration have launched an unprecedented and unwarranted attack on higher education that will do considerable damage to it. That’s not just our opinion. It’s also the opinion of hundreds of college leaders who signed a public statement titled “A Call for Constructive Engagement,” issued by the American Association of Colleges and … [Read more...]
Higher Education, Lower Expectations
Since returning to office on January 20, Donald Trump and his administration have launched an unprecedented and unwarranted attack on higher education that will do considerable damage. Unfortunately, in this century, the higher education establishment has done considerable damage to itself. Public Opinion and Views on Higher Education At one time, higher education was held in uniformly high regard. Today, for a variety of reasons, this is no longer the case. The expectations … [Read more...]
Indian Americans fret over Big Beautiful law
On July 4, as Americans marked the 249th anniversary of the nation’s founding, President Donald Trump signed into law his signature legislative achievement: The “One Big Beautiful Bill”. Spanning nearly 900 pages, the legislation overhauls the US tax code, boosts spending on defense, border security, and infrastructure, and introduces a wide array of industry-specific incentives and subsidies. In addition, the law slashes funding for some entitlement programmes, most notably … [Read more...]
Trust Busting and the News Media
This is the second part of a two-part series on trust-busting and the news media. In part one, we examined the nature of the trust-busting from a variety of perspectives. In this blog, we examine the causes of the trust-busting and what to do to address them. Many critics of the traditional news media would cite it as the sole source of the trust-busting. That is definitely not the case. The Trust-Busting Factors As we pointed out near the end of our first blog, there are a number … [Read more...]