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Topic2020 US election

Topic: 2020 US election

The 2020 election sees US President Donald Trump make a re-election bid while Joe Biden, the Democratic candidate and former vice president, challenges him in the White House race. This year has been tumultuous, with issues of racism, police brutality, the coronavirus pandemic and the impact on economy, and ties with China dominating US politics. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s death has also catapulted the justice system into the limelight.

Biden vowed to restore standards. Democrats saying Trump was worse isn’t the way forward

Ramesh Ponnuru -
Biden administration has to decide whether to use 'but what about Trump?' as an all-purpose excuse when it gets criticized, even for future controversies that are sure to arise.

Donald Trump campaign spent $8.8 million in effort to overturn vote

Bill Allison -
The largest outlay was a $3 million payment to the Wisconsin Elections Commission for a partial recount in two populous counties. The recounts did not change the result.

Trump nears ‘checkmate’ stage in last-gasp bid to reverse Biden’s win

Mark Niquette -
Donald Trump continues to hurl unsubstantiated accusations of voter fraud on Twitter, but he is now left with only a few extremely improbable options to derail Biden’s inauguration.

Kamala Harris scoffs at the idea of a rematch against Trump in 2024

Emma Kinery -
Trump recently has begun shifting focus away from his long-shot efforts to overturn the 2020 election results & toward a bid for the Republican nomination in the next election.

Indian American Neera Tanden to be named Biden’s budget chief, but Republicans could oppose

Jennifer Epstein -
Neera Tanden, who currently leads the think tank Center for American Progress, worked on the Obama administration’s healthcare reform & was a close adviser to Hillary Clinton.

US appeals court dismisses Trump campaign lawsuit in Pennsylvania challenging election result

Lalit K Jha -
In his order, Judge Stephanos Bibas has said that calling an election unfair does not make it so and charges and allegations require proof.

Lawyer dropped from Trump legal team had filed election suits in ‘DISTRCOICT’ court

Anthony Aarons -
Sidney Powell, who filed typo-strewn lawsuits in Michigan and Georgia, was kicked off Trump’s legal team after her claims about a Democratic conspiracy against the president.

Trump lost. Republican leaders need to say so.

Michael Bloomberg -
Leadership is about facing reality and dealing with it. And if Republican leaders don't face up to it, they will do lasting damage to the fabric of US democracy.

Trump all but concedes to Biden, agrees to cooperate on transition

Jennifer Dlouhy -
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris may now begin receiving classified intelligence briefings, and Biden’s team can dig into work essential to running the federal government.

Biden to name longtime aide Antony Blinken as Secretary of State

Tyler Pager -
Blinken has been regarded as one of the leading candidates to run the State Department. He was the deputy secretary of state under President Barack Obama.
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India’s military revival hinges on overestimating Pakistan Army

Sidharth Raimedhi -
We're used to framing the issue as one of deterrence, 'if you do X, then we will do Y and Z'. We should be moving toward compellence— 'if you do not abandon X, then we will do Y and Z'.

Even Imran Khan is praising Pakistan Army now. Military nationalism is back in the country

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The next wars will be silent—fought with semiconductors, software, invisible lines of code

Economy

No competition, have to deliver faster & reliably, says Amazon India V-P of operations

ThePrint Team -
Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.

Defence

Op Sindoor: Inside story of what led Pakistan DGMO to make frantic calls for ‘ceasefire’

Snehesh Alex Philip -
India used multiple types of aircraft, air to surface missiles & air defence systems to inflict damage to PAF. Almost all strikes were covered by high-res recon UAVs & satellites.

National Interest

Pakistan has a 7-year terror itch. Here’s a two-minus-one-front idea to cure it

Shekhar Gupta -
Pakistani establishments and their proxies are prone to severe, predictable 7-year-itch. Each step up the escalation ladder buys India about this many years of deterrence on average.

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