There’s a theory out there—wild, audacious, but surprisingly hard to dismiss—that just about everything worth celebrating in Western civilization was dreamed up, built, or perfected by Jews. From splitting the atom to decoding life itself, from rewriting the rules of music to redefining what it means to be human, Jewish brilliance turned the world into…
Jagdish Bhagwati, the influential economist who’s taught at MIT and Columbia in the US for over half a century, once described Indians as the new Jews in America, successful in all fields except the mafia. He may have meant it in a lighter vein, but there’s lots of data to back up what he said….
TOI Correspondent from Washington: The oldest man to win the US Presidency will have the youngest press secretary in White House history.MAGA supremo and President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named Karoline Leavitt, 27, as the White House press secretary, one of the most visible jobs in the world, continuing his rapid staffing of an administration…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: Cherrypicking data from the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics jobs report during a heated election campaign, some pro-Trump economists and the MAGA media are alleging foreign-born workers are scoring “nearly all job gains” at the expense of native-born Americans amid a toxic undercurrent of resentment and racial abuse of Indian tech…
TOI CORRESPONDENT FROM WASHINGTON: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a female Democrat, has opened an investigation into comments by MAGA supremo Donald Trump wondering how “war hawk” Liz Cheney would feel if guns were “trained on her face” as a potentially prosecutable offense, amid a raging gender clash in the US Presidential election. “I have…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: Americans are bracing for gridlock on November 5/6 with fervid talk in political circles about voting fraud and stolen elections. Partisan judges and litigators in a deeply polarized country are already duking it out in courts, questioning voter registrations and balloting procedures amid wild conspiracy theories that do not augur well…
Donald Trump and Joe Biden TOI Correspondent from Washington: It’s the garbage, stupid. MAGA Trumpers and Democrats took aim at each other over characterizing their opponents as “garbage,” as the stink of mutual denigration enveloped Presidential elections in the self-described greatest country on earth. Seizing on President Joe Biden’s putdown of Trump supporters as “garbage”…
TOI Correspondent from Washington: MAGA Supremo Donald Trump asserted on Monday that he is the “opposite of a Nazi” as reverberations from a vile and toxic rally he headlined at Madison Square Garden on Sunday continued to rattle the US political arena. “The newest line from Kamala and her campaign is that everyone who isn’t…
TOI correspondent from Washington: The rally was enormous — and raucous. Madison Square Gardens was filled to the rafters with 20,000 people, with thousands more outside. The speeches were fierce, vitriolic, and in some instances, racially loaded. Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and MAGA’s social media megaphone, introduced Melania Trump, making a rare campaign…
MAGA poster at Trump rally (left), as Donald Trump (right) speaks at Madison Square Garden, Sunday, October 27, 2024, in New York. (Photo/Agencies) TOI CORRESPONDENT FROM WASHINGTON: It was meant to be funny. Instead, it could turn out to be a serious mistake. Throwaway lines by a comedian who labeled Puerto Rico a “floating island…
