America

America’s Plastic Revival

Shailendra Tyagi

Even with the increase in petrochem production, prices may not come down too much

Snapping a Crude Link

Shailendra Tyagi

America’s gas renaissance could spell cheaper gas for energy-starved economies even in Asia

America’s New Iran Strategy

Shailendra Tyagi

The goal of America’s latest sanctions is to reduce Iran’s export earnings drastically while shielding the global economy from oil price spikes

Has Pankaj Mishra Ever Been to South Dakota?

Ethan Casey

For a writer whose first book was a travelogue around small-town India, Pankaj Mishra seems strangely unwilling to engage with the complexities, or provincialities, of the United States. In his recent scathing review of Harvard historian Niall Ferguson’s book Civilisation: The West and the Rest, as in his other writings, Mishra seems interested in America only to the extent that he can caricature its ruling elite in order to knock them down, says Ethan Casey

(Fading) Superpower Games

Shougat Dasgupta

America has taken upon itself this last decade to reshape the world in its own disfigured image. Will it spend the next decade recoiling from the result?

The Death of Counterculture

Shougat Dasgupta

Even ten years after 9/11, American popular culture continues to mimic the hollow piety of the political establishment. Granted the honourable exceptions

Larry Crowne

Ajit Duara

In this feel-good movie, Tom Hanks celebrates the ordinariness of American life

Exorcising the Ghost of Geronimo

Shougat Dasgupta

More than the sobering effect an ill-advised codename might have had on giddy Americans celebrating the Osama killing, it was a reminder of the country’s own historical injustices