Rupert Cornwell: Obama: In the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln

1/19/2009

America is living a strange and magical moment. In a fickle universe, US presidential inaugurations are a quadrennial rock of predictability, like leap years and the football World Cup. But never has there been one quite like the inauguration this week of Barack Obama.

Pop-Aholic: Take the "Time" out of Halftime

1/8/2009

There are many cases in recent times where people have taken large steps in order to make things more "appropriate" for the sake of "decency". Steven Spielberg used his special effects voodoo to transform all of the guns held by the federal agents in ET into walkie-talkies.

Fixing terror laws no harder than economy

12/11/2008

President-elect Barack Obama spent last week reassuring us that his economic team is hard at work figuring out how to revive our failing economy. No more difficult than that job will be another critical task his predecessor leaves him. Obama must find a way through the legal morass President George W. Bush created with his war on terror.

Indian Americans wish the UPA to survive

7/26/2008 1:27:23 PM

If there was one wish which any Indian American today was asked to make as the Parliament starts debating the confidence motion of Prime Minister M

Nuclear Deal: Domestic rejection, global acceptance! What an interesting irony!

7/26/2008 1:27:23 PM

For the world, the Indo-US Civilian nuclear deal almost seems a &quot;win-win&quot; situation; what is unfathomable is the domestic

Now clear fission

7/26/2008 1:27:23 PM

The dust has now settled on the political and nuclear frenzy of the last few weeks. Some things are now clearer than they have ever been before. Th

The US is right on Modi

7/26/2008 1:27:23 PM

It is now highly unlikely that Narendra Modi will visit Uncle Sam this year, and a few strident advocacy groups can take credit for it.

An Amarnath diary: Testing faith

7/26/2008 1:27:23 PM

They say a nose for news invariably leads you into the thick of things. But I found myself heading north to Amarnath not as a scribe eager to penci

China Olympic spin

7/26/2008 1:27:23 PM

Foreign journalists are often invited to China by the propaganda department who give out heavy doses of the 'Green' Olympics and China's efforts to

Will Israel Survive?

5/9/2008 2:30:04 PM

Israel is hampered by an ineffectual prime minister and an American secretary of state who turns a blind eye to Palestinians' willful renunciation of

Recent News: Opinion

Rupert Cornwell: Obama: In the footsteps of Abraham Lincoln

Pop-Aholic: Take the "Time" out of Halftime

Fixing terror laws no harder than economy

Indian Americans wish the UPA to survive

Nuclear Deal: Domestic rejection, global acceptance! What an interesting irony!

Now clear fission

The US is right on Modi

An Amarnath diary: Testing faith

China Olympic spin

Will Israel Survive?