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By Mark Gruenberg WASHINGTON: Led by Minnesota’s Tim Walz, some 743 unionists—and counting—won public office nationwide, from Congress down to county commissioner, the AFL-CIO calculates. Walz, a member of Education Minnesota—the joint AFT-NEA affiliate in the state—and a Mankato High School history teacher, was the Democratic-Farmer-Labor congressman...
By Aditya Aamir You will have to be in a Faraday Cage to get out of earshot of toxic journalism. Better still stop breathing. Let the lifeline flatten out on the box next to the hospital bed. Part of it is because the journalist is becoming the story....
By B. Sivaraman The pace of events was amazing. On 25 October 2018, the New York Times carried an exposé on how Google top management handled sexual harassment complaints against their top executives. When sexual harassment charges surfaced against Andy Rubin, the creator of the Android mobile software,...
By L.S. Herdenia BHOPAL: BJP always accuses Congress of “Parivarvad” but now it is the love of sons by several stalwarts of BJP that is the main hurdle causing delay in finalising tickets in some crucial constituencies. Incidentally they include people who have spent their whole lives in...
By Rahil Nora Chopra In Rajasthan BJP is facing a bigger problem from their own cadre than from the Congress or opposition parties. The situation is similar to the one prevailing at the time of by-elections when the party workers had opposed chief minister Vasundhra Raje. The...
Naeem Ahmed Qazi, a development consultant for national and foreign institutions and primarily an educationist, has reminded Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan Niazi of his past when he played cricket with a straight bat. In an acid-tongue opinion piece indicting the new government for surrender to the religious...
By Barun Das Gupta In the first week of this month the Prime Minister broke the news to the nation that India’s first indigenously built nuclear submarine Arihant had successfully completed its first ‘deterrence patrol’. Though the PM did not make such a claim, a section of the...
By Shameem Faizee After destroying the national economy by shamelessly pursuing the pro-Corporate economic policies, the Narendra Modi government in last year of its power is bent upon conducting loot and loot of the remaining national wealth to save its skin as well as spend the looted...
By Nitya Chakraborty It was two years ago, on that fateful night of November 8, 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced his “historic” decision of demonetization promising that it would act as a game changer in the Indian economy by driving out black money, weed out fake notes...
By John Wojcik A substantial majority of Americans went to the polls on November 6 and pulled the lever for candidates who opposed President Trump and his policies. Even in the elections for the U.S. Senate, where the GOP gained at least three seats, 10 million more people...