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Wednesday, July 23, 2025
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Topic: US Presidents

Outgoing US President Joe Biden warns against oligarchy in farewell address

Biden urged the American public to stand guard and to uphold the pillars of democracy. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to take office on 20 January.

Trump’s fall shows US won’t tolerate predators. It could mean seismic shift in world order

The gaze on Trump is remarkably different. Of course, the age of predatory men isn’t behind us, but it does seem to come with costs for them.

Joe Biden’s first year as US president has been disappointing

Biden was elected because he promised to move on from Trump’s poisonous politics. No task is more important. And this means resisting the call of the hard left.

Who is Amanda Gorman, 22-year-old poet at Biden’s inauguration everyone is talking about

Gorman, who followed in the footsteps of poets Maya Angelou and Robert Frost, has a speech impediment and presidential dreams, just like US President Joe Biden.

Joe Biden sworn in as 46th US President to lead nation wracked by Covid, unemployment

Kamala Harris also took oath as the US Vice President, becoming the first woman, the first Black person, and the first Indian-American to serve in the role.

Trump isn’t the first. America has a petty history of presidential transitions

The presidents who behave badly during transitions are viewed as the worst presidents overall, which suggests that their behaviour may have been symptomatic of deeper deficiencies.

What it’s like to lose a presidential election — from Nixon, Carter and Hillary Clinton

In early 2020, when the Democratic primaries were still going on, Donald Trump expressed his unwillingness to vacate the White House.

All about tax returns by US presidents, and how Trump broke a 47-year-old custom

An NYT report Sunday revealed that US President Donald Trump paid only $750 as income tax in 2016 and 2017, and nothing in 10 out of the last 15 years.

Kanye West says he’s running for US President, gets Elon Musk’s support

West’s Saturday night Twitter post, saying he's running for president, instantly went viral, with more than 100,000 retweets within the first hour.

Not just 2020, why the US has never had a woman president

It is not the lack of qualified women. Record numbers of women currently serve in the House and Senate.

On Camera

Bihar mimics 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters

Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.

India-US set to ink mini trade deal soon, reach understanding on agricultural & dairy products

Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.

Not just AK-203, India & Russia to jointly manufacture AK-19 and PPK-20 for domestic use and export 

India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.

Strategic partner one day, tactical nightmare the next: India’s learning Trumplomacy the hard way

Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.