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Saturday, March 14, 2026
TopicUS Electoral College

Topic: US Electoral College

Taking cue from India & Brazil, Trump to overhaul US electoral system with new citizenship checks

Trump’s latest executive order follows his long-standing grievances with the American electoral system. He has, in the past, blamed his electoral defeats on voter fraud.

From Tablighi Jamaat to Bilkis Bano—Majoritarianism growing in India, leftists not all wrong

To call leftists all wrong might be simple, even an utterly lucid argument. But coming from a doyen of the Hindu right in India, it is astonishing in its lack of nuance.

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

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.

Trump says will give up power if electoral college affirms Joe Biden’s victory

The Electoral College is due to vote 14 December. Certificates recording the electoral vote results in each state must be received by the Senate president no later than 23 December.

Greatness of US’ maze-like electoral system can’t match Indian voting. Just look at the delay

For Indians stoically used to multiple phases of polling — three in just the ongoing Bihar assembly election – the spectre of delay in the world’s oldest democracy seems baffling.

On Camera

Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.