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Wednesday, March 18, 2026
TopicState of the Union

Topic: State of the Union

Trump’s State of the Union address laid bare America’s political fractures

If there was an overriding message from Trump’s State of the Union Address, it was this: America stands at the crossroads of an era-defining struggle within its own polity.

The citizen doth protest too much  & the state of the union is wobbly

The best cartoons of the day, chosen by the editors at ThePrint.

I want immigrants to come to US, but legally, says president Trump

In his State of the Union address, Donald Trump said it is time for Congress to show the world that the US is committed to ending illegal immigration.

Trump will meet Kim Jong-un a second time in Vietnam on February 27-28

Since the first Trump-Kim Jong-un summit last June, little progress has been made toward US' ultimate goal -- getting North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.

US making progress in negotiating peace with Taliban: Trump during State of Union address

Justifying US pullout from the Iran nuclear deal, Trump says it’s a radical regime that is the world’s leading state sponsor of terror.

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India’s Dharmic tradition offers an intellectual framework for global peace

Global leadership will require the ability to mediate conflicts and anchor policy in ethical reasoning. The intellectual resources for such leadership exist within India’s civilisational heritage.

Covid, sanctions, war. Life’s rough for Surat’s small diamond units, salaries ‘not guaranteed anymore’

West Asia war threatens to push already fragile industry deeper into crisis. Latest disruption is playing out differently for bigger and small-scale players in Surat’s diamond industry.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.