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As the president barrels through his second term with military deployments, sweeping budget demands, and mounting defiance of legal norms, critics warn that the US is drifting from democracy to domination—one executive order at a time

By Vikram Kilpady The long-delayed Census of India will finally be conducted by March 1, 2027, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has announced. Sixteen years after the last headcount, this fresh ...

By Annunthra Rangan In a sign of tentative diplomatic thaw, India’s External Affairs Minister Subramanyam Jaishankar and Canada’s newly appointed Foreign Minister Anita Anand held a constructive d...

By Kenneth Tiven Donald Trump is angry and frustrated with the US Constitution and federal judges, but the only person he should blame is England’s King George III, whose indifference towards Nort...

In a stinging rebuke to the president’s expansive use of emergency powers, a federal trade court has ruled his sweeping global tariffs illegal. While a temporary reprieve delays the full effect, the decision is the latest in a cascade of courtroom defeats that reveal a presidency increasingly at odds with law and institutional limits

By Kenneth Tiven “Define habeas corpus in American law.” That was Senator Maggie Hassan’s opening question to Kristi Noem, the head of the Department of Homeland Security and a former farm girl fr...

By Kumkum Chadha As a nation, we take pride in being one—standing together, so to speak. But scratch the surface, and the cracks appear: deep and beyond repair. Nothing describes this better than ...

By Annunthra Rangan Just days after a fragile ceasefire took effect on May 10, India and Pakistan have plunged into a fresh diplomatic standoff—this time, over who won the battle and what it means...

The release of Badar Khan Suri, an Indian scholar detained for pro-Palestinian speech, reveals growing judicial resistance to Donald Trump-era authoritarian overreach—and signals the high-stakes battle over America’s democratic future

In an unflinching interview, the National Conference MP speaks about the Pahalgam terror attack, the alienation of Kashmiris, the politics of religion, and his growing disillusionment with his own party’s silence