Ishaan Tharoor is a staff writer at TIME magazine and co-editor of TIME World, based in New York City. A New Yorker (by upbringing) and an Indian (by passport), he joined TIME’s Asia headquarters in Hong Kong after graduating from Yale in 2006. Since then, he has covered international geo-politics extensively for the magazine and Time.com, ranging from Maoist camps in Nepal to the corridors of trans-Atlantic power in Brussels.
Viewpoint: American Exceptionalism Has Become Exceptionally Stale
No other country — and there are many other success stories out there — ascribes to such a chest-thumping, predictable creed as the United States
