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Tuesday, March 31, 2026
TopicUS politics

Topic: US politics

Jesse Jackson was Martin Luther King Jr’s protege. He wanted to be US president

Jesse Jackson was known for being the first African-American to make the jump from activism to major-party presidential politics following the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

Saikat Chakrabarti, the Bengali tech millionaire running for US Congress with a people-first agenda

New Delhi: Saikat Chakrabarti likes his music “open-ended”—hip-hop, rock, and Bengali tracks feature among his many likes. This Thanksgiving, he says, the family got together...

Pew survey says Americans are frustrated with both Republicans and Democrats

Trust in the ethical conduct of government is low with only 39% holding the view that the GOP governs ethically and honestly. Democrats performed only marginally better at 42%.

America under Trump — more than democratic backsliding, less than a right-wing revolution

The attempted revolution faces three structural limits, and is likely to falter.

Charlie Kirk’s killing has America at war with itself. Foreigners & visa-seekers ‘warned’

Conservative activist Charlie Kirk, gunned down this week, was no ordinary influencer. He helped bring the Trump administration to power. His death has deepened America’s Left-Right divide.

Labelled ‘communist lunatic’ by Trump, New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani is an outlier

Mamdani, who is of Indian heritage & identifies as a Muslim, is making headlines for his strong views & emerging as the Democrat mayor nominee Tuesday, beating former governor Andrew Cuomo.

Musk ‘regrets’ drama with Trump amid investor focus on Tesla’s self-driving taxi launch

Investors appeared to welcome the shift in Musk's stance, with Tesla’s stock rising 2.6 percent in pre-market trading. Musk and Trump had a very public falling out last week.

Biden’s withdrawal rare but not unprecedented. Seven other US presidents have dropped out before

John Tyler was the first sitting president to bow out of a presidential campaign while Lyndon Johnson was the latest, nearly half a century before Biden announced his withdrawal.

How concerns over Biden’s age snowballed, left him isolated with flagging campaign & led to his exit

There were three key issues that impacted Biden’s campaign in the last three weeks: loss of support among Democratic rank and file, growing doubt among donors and low polling numbers.

US has a long tradition of sex scandals. Trump’s conviction won’t end his political career

Donald Trump’s dogged denial of wrong-doing or a Bill Clinton-like confession might yet retrieve his standing among Americans.

On Camera

How West Asia crisis can play out for PM Modi and BJP in Assembly polls

While the Russia-Ukraine war saw the BJP projecting PM Modi as a ‘vishwaguru’ who could end international conflicts, the party has made a nuanced shift in its electoral strategy vis-à-vis the West Asia war.

Foreign investors dump record $12 bn India stocks in March on war

Soaring energy costs have hurt oil-importing Asian peers, but the scale of outflows from India points to already bearish global sentiment.

India developing lethal autonomous weapon systems, database of citizens’ crime risk—House Panel report

Report on impact of AI emergence—drawing upon depositions from several ministries—confirms that the developments come in the absence of AI laws or considerations over them.

Gulf war exposed India’s fragilities. It’s time for navel-gazing, in the national interest

It’s easy to understand why the government can’t speak the hard truth. When this war ends, as all wars do, India’s interests will lie with both the winner and the loser.