by Aseem Gupta | Nov 30, 2025 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Donald Trump has repeatedly presented himself as a president capable of ending wars that conventional diplomacy could not resolve. During the first year of his second presidency, he claimed to have settled seven conflicts across the world. The White House eventually...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 29, 2025 | Book Summaries and Analysis
In The Exchange: After the Firm, published on October 17, 2023, John Grisham returns to Mitch and Abby McDeere fifteen years after their escape from the corrupt law firm at the center of his 1991 bestseller, The Firm. The couple have rebuilt their lives, raised a...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 23, 2025 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s The Boys from Biloxi, published by Doubleday in October 2022, follows two families whose fortunes become inseparable from the history of organized crime on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast. Jesse Rudy and Lance Malco grow up within the same Croatian-American...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 16, 2025 | Book Summaries and Analysis
John Grisham’s Sparring Partners, published by Doubleday in 2022, brings together three novellas about people whose lives have become entangled with the American legal system. In “Homecoming,” a disgraced Mississippi lawyer tries to reconnect with the family he...
by Aseem Gupta | Nov 15, 2025 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
Inside many electric vehicles is a motor that delivers remarkable acceleration with almost no noise. Buried within that motor may be a set of powerful permanent magnets containing rare-earth elements such as neodymium and praseodymium. These materials account for a...
