Donald Trump

An Absolute Right to Cancel

Madhavankutty Pillai

Social media companies have turned an authoritarian corner after the Capitol Hill riots

“Naïve Biden likely to go soft on Trump”

Ullekh NP

C Christine Fair on US politics

A Madness without Method

TP Sreenivasan

The US has survived its worst challenge by continuing the democratic process without being overwhelmed by the machinations of an individual

Whitelash

Minhaz Merchant

Joe Biden inherits a deeply divided America

Forecast 2021

S Prasannarajan

A future built on the ruins of the past need not be fragile. That is the hope of 2021

The End of the American Scream

James Astill

A foreign correspondent’s journal

Trump, the Golfer

TP Sreenivasan

A handicap and an incentive for the American president

Banana Republic, Richard II and Tughlaq

TP Sreenivasan

Hopefully, the US will redeem itself under Biden

Joe Biden: The Day of the Quiet American

James Astill

Joe Biden, an error-prone politician but a universally well-liked man, scarcely put a foot wrong during the campaign. Trump and the pandemic made that relatively easy. The President soaked up all the attention, not in a good way. Biden seems to have unseated him with a sense of decency