Fighting Trump on the Beaches

Anniversary speeches are, generally speaking, the trivial bane of an American Presidency. They are, by definition, backward-looking. The obligatory patriotic rhetoric, the flag-drenched backdrops—it is hard for them to read as anything other than tired and trite. Speaking in Normandy…

6/7: CBS News Weekender – CBS News

6/7: CBS News Weekender – CBS News Watch CBS News Lana Zak reports on President Biden’s speech on democracy and freedom in France, new data from the Labor Department that shows a hotter than expected jobs report, and what you…

Media baron Ramoji Rao passes away

The head of Ramoji Film City and ETV network, Ramoji Rao, also known as Cherukuri Ramoji Rao, passed away while undergoing treatment in Hyderabad at the age of 87. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Media baron and founder of the…

What Is the Opposite of Oil Drilling?

Monte Markley, a geologist who lives on a farm near Wichita, Kansas, describes his job as “putting things underground and keeping them there.” As an environmental consultant, he specializes in disposing of industrial waste in subterranean rock formations. “All through…

How Liberals Talk About Children

When Imre Kertész won the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 2002, I was twenty-two and deep in one of those unfortunate periods during which a young writer wants to be serious but doesn’t quite know what that means. The young…

Andhra Pradesh: IAS, IPS officers snubbed

Vijayawada: A senior IAS officer and three senior IPS officers have been asked to “go back” when they tried to meet prospective new chief minister, Nara Chandrababu Naidu. They rushed to Naidu by way of a courtesy call or to…

The Hindu Morning Digest: June 7, 2024

Youth participating in the BJP’s Vikasit Bharat programm in Bengaluru. File photo | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Modi likely to take oath as Prime Minister on June 9 Newly elected MPs of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance are expected to…

My Father’s Fate, and India’s

My father died in April of last year. He was seventy-three years old, almost the same age as the Indian Republic, and his death came after a harrowing struggle with cancer. Before the abrupt decline that took away his speech…