Welcome to Power Players, The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take an in-depth look at the key figures in American politics as the US reshapes itself and the world. • The most powerful woman in the world you’ve never heard of• The ‘swamp creature’ eclipsing JD Vance in the race to succeed Trump• The greatest hope of the Trump resistance is a 34-year-old immigrant• The 28-year-old Trump attack dog ripping up the Washington playbook• The ‘pro-white nationalist’ whose power over Trump grows every day• Trump’s military cheerleader who is learning about war the hard way

Welcome to Power Players, The i Paper’s opinion series in which our writers and experts take an in-depth look at the key figures in American politics as the US reshapes itself and the world.

• The most powerful woman in the world you’ve never heard of• The ‘swamp creature’ eclipsing JD Vance in the race to succeed Trump• The greatest hope of the Trump resistance is a 34-year-old immigrant• The 28-year-old Trump attack dog ripping up the Washington playbook• The ‘pro-white nationalist’ whose power over Trump grows every day• Trump’s military cheerleader who is learning about war the hard way

Second Lady Usha Vance celebrated Mother’s Day earlier this month weekend in heartwarming, tradwife fashion. The pregnant Usha, wife of Vice President JD Vance, shared a charming conversation with her mother Dr Lakshmi Chilukuri about reading and childhood memories, a Mother’s Day special recorded for her inoffensively titled podcast Storytime with the Second Lady. But there was a subtle twist which underlines the contradictions of Usha’s position as both wife of the Maga attack dog-in-chief, and the daughter of Indian immigrants.

Grandmother of the three Vance children, Lakshmi told the audience how she liked to read to Usha and her sister Shreya Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories – including How The Camel Got His Hump. The choice of author speaks to Usha’s Indian heritage. Kipling........

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