Over the past decade or so, the term “cancel culture,” and its traveling companion “woke,” have been used by some on the right to label and vilify those on the left who have spoken out and taken actions contrary to their perspective. Media coverage has disclosed that there are some on the right who employ cancel culture tactics. Truth be told, they are much better practitioners of the cancel culture than those on the left. We made this point in a 2021 blog titled, “Do We Have … [Read more...]
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MAGA vs America First threatens Trump’s agenda
Nearly 10 months after returning him to the White House, Donald Trump’s MAGA coalition is beginning to show signs of strain. For the first time, the President, who kept his movement unified through four years out of power, is struggling to constrain divisions within his own ranks. A growing and diverse group of right-wing pundits, activists, and lawmakers is now challenging key elements of his agenda, emphasising America First. Trump’s MAGA movement was born in June 2015, when he rode … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving Thoughts on Our Divided Nation
On this Thanksgiving Day, the concept of a united and unified America seems an alien one. In fact, it is almost impossible to contemplate. That is a line from our 2016 Thanksgiving Thoughts on Our Divided Nation blog. In our 2020 Thanksgiving Thoughts on our Divided Nation blog, we stated: How many times greater is that divide in 2020? It is unquantifiable. It is fair to say though that the divide is a chasm and the width and depth of that chasm is … [Read more...]
America’s Gerrymandered Economy
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. — Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Presidential Inaugural Address, 1937 Much has been written over the past several months about the gerrymandering of congressional districts in order to try to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the 2026 midterm elections. As in the past, this gerrymandering is … [Read more...]
Whose America is it? In US, Indians face the heat
Suddenly, a community once celebrated as a shining example of immigrant success finds itself caught in the crossfire of America’s immigration wars. On social media, questions about loyalty to the US are raised with increasing frequency. Recently, a Florida city councilman posted on X: “There’s not a single Indian that cares about the United States” and “Deport every Indian immediately.” Even public celebrations of Indian festivals — long encouraged by cities and states as symbols of … [Read more...]
America At War
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...]
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...]