Ashfaque Swapan

Thanksgiving is the most quintessential of American holidays. With the arrival of winter, as the weather is buffeted by chill winds, people travel the length and breadth of the country to seek warmth in the affectionate ties of family.

“I don't worry about our losing republican government in the United States because I'm afraid of a foreign invasion.... What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible.

"It's like Humpty Dumpty fell and broke, and a giant lawn mower ran over it, acid was thrown on the pieces - and a bunch of racist idiots ran off with an arm and a leg. How do you put it together? I don't know." - Republican consultant John Weaver, talking about the present crisis of the Republican Party, to The Boston Globe

Trump now has lost the support of two demographic cohorts without which he simply cannot win: Suburban women, and college-educated whites. Both groups are reliably Republican.

The jury is still out on who won the debate here, but the punditocracy in the United States seems fairly unanimous. Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton crushed Donald J. Trump, the Republican candidate.

The long Republican Party nightmare continued on March 15, as the garish real estate tycoon Donald Trump edged over rivals in three

The Democratic primaries have been remarkably free of rancour, thanks to the mostly civil and substantive political debate. The Republican primaries, on the other hand, have become a three-ring circus.

The good people of South Carolina and Nevada have spoken, and now we have a better idea of where the Republican and Democratic race for US president is headed.

LATE night on February 23, 1952, a young student of Dhaka Medical College was awakened from his sleep in the middle of the night.

The US Congress, made up of the Senate and the House, is where the real power lies. It controls the government's purse-strings and makes the laws.

The results of the February 9 New Hampshire primary are in, and the ebullient real estate tycoon Donald Trump is back in the driver's seat in the race for the Republican nomination for the US presidential elections in November.

Donald Trump, the US real estate tycoon-turned-presidential candidate, topped himself not so long ago - no mean achievement - by outraging the entire world with his demand to ban the entry of Muslims into the US.

The Republican dominance in the House has been fuelled by the spectacular rise of conservative media which directly helped the rise of the Tea Party movement, a grassroots, non-college white protest against President Barack Obama's healthcare programme.