Democratic Party

Democrats reshuffle primaries to stress diversity over tradition

The Democratic Party on Saturday approved reordering its 2024 presidential primary, replacing Iowa with South Carolina in the leadoff spot as part of a major shake-up meant to empower Black and other minority voters critical to its base of support.

Shadow Warrior | The US midterm elections and implications especially for India

Normally the ruling party loses seats in the midterms, but this time the loss could actually turn into a rout, especially because of inflation and high interest

It's Election Night in America and 'party toh banti hai'

The control of the House and Senate hangs in balance in the crucial US midterms. But as the results came in and the Democrats performed better than expected, there were celebrations across the country. There was dancing, drinking and more

Explained: Why is the US’ Republican National Committee suing Gmail

Google and Gmail have been sued by the Republican Party and the Republican National Committee over how their emails are being filtered out by the tech giant's spam filters. This is the first time that a political party has sued a tech giant like this.

Nancy Pelosi visit adds to the miseries and mysteries of Ukraine war

The Ukraine-Pelosi episodes may have finally shifted American, and by extension global attention away from individual enemies of the US, hence, ‘enemies of humanity’, to post-Cold War State players

Madeleine Albright, first woman US secretary of state, dies at 84

Enveloped by a veil of family secrets hidden from her for most of her life, Albright rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs and a White House counsellor on national security

Of promises unfulfilled and expectations belied: President Joe Biden’s disappointing year in office

President Joe Biden needs to do more in concrete terms to reassert US position in world affairs and try to prevent the rise of a self-centred and aggressive hegemon

Russia's SVR hijacked email system of US aid agency to target NGOs, think tanks critical of Putin

According to cybersecurity firm SecureWorks, the Russian hackers targeted the Atlantic Council and EU Disinfo Lab, which have both exposed several Russian disinformation campaigns

Senate confirmation in doubt for Neera Tanden, Joe Biden's pick for budget director

Some liberals on Capitol Hill were not enthusiastic supporters of Tanden — and even before Biden took office, some of them saw her nomination fight as a distraction

First up at Donald Trump's impeachment: Can a former president stand trial?

The Democratic House impeachment managers are expected to broadly assert that a president can be put on trial for offences committed in office, no matter when the trial is held