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Six Weeks From Zero (novel)
The Dawn Beyond Currency (Part 1) (novel)
The Dawn Beyond Currency (Part 2) (novel)
The Great Subcontinent Uprising (Part 1) (novel)
The Great Subcontinent Uprising (Part 2) (novel)
The Great Subcontinent Uprising (novel)
The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
The Protocol of Greatness (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Garden Of Last Debates (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

Trump Is Engineering Regime Change, Right Here at Home Lest anyone miss the strongman theme, Mr. Trump chose Thursday to say on social media that he hoped Attorney General Pam Bondi was “looking at” the former special prosecutor Jack Smith. That happened to be the day Mr. Smith appeared before a House committee and methodically explained why he had indicted Mr. Trump for causing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. ............. Mr. Trump is actively seeking regime change — not in Venezuela, where a dictatorship remains in power despite the apprehension of Nicolás Maduro, but in the United States. .............. On Thursday, TikTok announced a deal with a group that included several investors with ties to Mr. Trump. ........ Another Day 1 move, Mr. Trump’s blanket pardon for the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, did arouse substantial outrage. But the sharpest criticism came from Democrats and other Trump critics, with Republicans in large numbers hiding behind the fact that a president has unlimited constitutional power to issue pardons, or ducking the question entirely. ................ The signal Mr. Trump sent from the start — that he could set aside laws he didn’t like and that those who engaged in criminality on his behalf would receive clemency — spoke to the seriousness of his embrace of “radical constitutionalism,” which, as he has made obvious, is no constitutionalism at all. ................ Since many of our liberties are still in place and our institutions continue to function in familiar ways, fear of regime change might once have seemed extreme, unduly academic or abstract. The events of the past three weeks have brought home that, on the contrary, these worries are chillingly realistic and concrete. .................. The killing of Ms. Good by an ICE agent — operating as part of a de facto personal police force for the president — has shocked and dismayed a significant American majority, and Mr. Pretti’s shooting death prompted new outrage. Even Republicans who have been loath to criticize Mr. Trump questioned the obviously phony investigation into Mr. Powell for fear of its impact on the economy. The prosecutorial threats against Mr. Walz, Mr. Ellison, Mr. Frey and the members of Congress who warned service members against obeying illegal orders can be seen only as ploys to use government power to chill dissent. ............... Mr. Trump’s practice of radical constitutionalism is radically dangerous. He eventually backed down, but not before causing enormous damage. The observation by Canada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, about the world order in his remarkable address at Davos last week is also true of our constitutional order: “We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.”

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Monday, January 26, 2026

26: India