Ashfaque Swapan

Biden’s predicament must be considered in the context of the brutal political landscape in the Western world.

Polls show a neck-and-neck race for the White House.

Trump’s true calling might well have been to be a carnival barker (unkind critics may say a used-car salesman)

Say what you will about former US President Donald Trump, but give him his due.

There are growing signs of substantial public disaffection in these two nations which have been conspicuous in refusing to take Israel to task for its slaughter.

The media’s job to interview geopolitical adversaries.

Trump is more a symptom rather than the cause of the current political crisis in the US.

I heard that the US government was about to shut down because it was running out of money. How is that possible?

The Republican problem is now a US problem.

Tucker Carlson, the recently fired US cable television talk show host at Fox News, was quite a force to be reckoned with. Until, he was fired.

Republicans are locked in a Faustian embrace with Trump, and the arrest is likely to make that embrace tighter.

This month provides a harrowing historical landmark of what an ugly turn that order has taken in the past.

Both the Dhaka Lit Fest and Ekushey Boi Mela offer sobering insights into the underlying socioeconomic challenges that have hamstrung Bangla publishing.

The war in Ukraine has spawned a mindless Russophobic war hysteria in the West that is appalling. It reminds me of my days in the US during the Iraq war. As Yogi Berra said, “It’s déjà vu all over again.”

As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine rages on, one of the strangest spectacles is a bunch of video clips of Fox News Channel’s conservative

The Nazrul Festival 2022, a two-day cultural extravaganza that was open to the public, has recently concluded.

A year ago, on January 6, armed, violent supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the US Capitol. Lawmakers hid in fear of their lives.

How time flies.

The USA’s battle against racism continues to be a Sisyphean struggle. No sooner do you bask in the comforting awareness of the enormous strides the nation has taken than you are yanked by the scruff of your neck to face some dreadful sign that this ugly affliction is well and alive.

My recent open letter to Hindu brothers and sisters published in this newspaper was accompanied by a photograph that is seared in my memory.