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America First?

The US is hurtling toward an economic abyss, and the stock market’s apocalyptic collapse on April 10, 2025, was a deafening wake-up call. That day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average…

End of the American century?

Everyone is feeling the turbulence in world affairs, with the change of guard at the White House making headlines. The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has stopped funding…

America’s Afghan congeries

In the annals of warfare and strategy, it would be difficult to find a tale of more woe than America’s Second Afghan War. What to call the US presence in…

America takes a Trump

On Monday this week, the world began to change in ways that are not easy to decipher. What is really intriguing is that it is all because of a change…

Trump’s ‘America first’ vow

The United States witnessed a historic moment on January 20, 2025, as Donald John Trump took the oath of highest office for his second term, promising to lead in a…

American exceptionalism

What happens when a nation feels imprisoned in its own myths? Perhaps it starts considering itself as an exceptional nation. That is the subject matter of a new book by…

Nemesis over America

The choice between Donald J Trump and Kamala Harris in the US presidential election was irrelevant to one fact: the ongoing decline of the United States. It has lost leadership,…