Vivek Ramaswamy (File photo) The TOI Correspondent from Washington: In a manic weekend of mutual MAGA bloodletting at a conservative conference where Trump devotees knifed each other verbally, Vivek Ramaswamy was just another collateral casualty. The biotech bro-turned-GOP gadfly, who thought being the party’s voice of reason was a viable career move in a mob…
Donald Trump with Kash Patel (AP image) WASHINGTON: Desis are in a doom spiral in the MAGA world. The populist, nationalist fervor that has defined the MAGA movement is now fueling a fierce internal conflict, with pro-Trump Indian-American conservatives like Dinesh D’Souza and Kash Patel finding themselves on the receiving end of the xenophobic attacks…
Zohran Mamdani (AP image) WASHINGTON: From the MAGA perspective, millionaires are fleeing Manhattan, cops are quitting NYPD en masse, and the Big Apple is rotting faster than strawberries on a summer day because New York City has fallen…to Communists, Islamists and immigrants. Memes show the Statue of Liberty under a burka or niqab, hammer and…
The TOI correspondent from Washington: India and Pakistan may have issues at their border, but progeny of the subcontinent have no problem leaving the baggage behind. In a striking choice, New York City’s mayor-elect, Uganda-born Indian-American Zohran Kwame Mamdani picked UK-born Pakistani-American Lina Maliha Khan to co-chair an all-women transition team as he prepares to…