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Will Trump falter first? Much hangs on this
Karl Marx believed that capitalism carried within itself the seeds of its own decline. The trajectory of America’s future and more hinges on the extent of Trump-led upheavals.
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Protesters rallying near the US Capitol in Washington, on Feb 17, to denounce the Trump administration.
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For a large section of Asia, America used to be the shining city on the hill. It was the post-World War II leader of the free world, the openness of its markets emblematic of the openness of American minds.
The concept of the Fourth Estate which sees an independent media to be as important as the executive, legislature and judiciary, thrived more in the US than any place else.
