Challenging times for democracy

"The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.'' - Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks In recent times there has been growing concern about the future of democracy in...

Firing of Tillerson: Whither US foreign policy?

President Trump had been threatening to sack Rex Tillerson since he found out soon after appointing the former EXXON-Mobil chief as the Secretary of State that he had a personality and was not adept at sycophancy. The news of the sacking came via one of the US president's famous tweets...