Last Wednesday, the White House announced that President Trump will grant clemency to Alice Marie Johnson, a woman who has served 21 years of a life sentence for a non-violent drug offence. Though Johnson’s case first gained national attention when she petitioned President Obama for a pardon in 2016, it appears that the event that most dramatically affected… Continue reading Kim Kardashian West is more than cosmetics and naked selfies, whether you like it or not
Last week, hours after President Trump announced in primetime that he would—despite his initial instincts—recommit American troops and resources to the war in Afghanistan, news broke that it was this 1972 photo that had swayed him. According to The Washington Post, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and H.R. McMaster, Trump’s national security advisor, had for months… Continue reading This 1972 photo of women in miniskirts convinced Trump to remain in Afghanistan
On Wednesday morning, President Trump announced on Twitter that he was instituting a ban on transgender members of the military. The armed forces “cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender [people] in the military would entail,” he wrote. But just how “tremendous” are those costs, really? After consultation with my… Continue reading US military spends more on viagra than it would on medical care for trans people
You can take the man out of India, but you can’t take the Indian manners out of the man. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s debut visit to the White House since Donald Trump became President was of paramount importance from an economic and socio-political standpoint, but of course, all the internet can talk about is his… Continue reading Everything that Prime Minister Modi gifted the Trumps
The 2017 edition of the Women’s March opened to a packed house, and then some. In the United States alone, 2.9 million women took to the streets making it the biggest one-day protest in the country’s history. And while the planned parenthood debate kept the coffee table cynics fed and happy, around the globe women… Continue reading 4 major conversations around women’s rights you need to know
Surely a book can have several origins. But a serious work of scholarship resulting from a video that goes viral on the Internet is novel, still. That’s precisely how Shashi Tharoor’s latest, An Era Of Darkness, came about. Tharoor, once a UN diplomat, now a directly elected member of parliament — a relatively rare Congressman… Continue reading “The party of Hindutva has betrayed centuries of ancient Hindu practice in acceptance of sexual deviancy”
The 2016 US election has been a wild roller-coaster ride with only severe nausea-inducing moments at every dip and turn. Now a conclusion has been reached and Donald Trump has been named the president of the USA, succeeding Barack Obama to one of the most powerful positions in the world. Whether this would result in… Continue reading The majority has spoken: Donald Trump is now the 45th president of the USA
