If President-elect Joe Biden’s emerging national security team looks awfully familiar, that’s because it is — with most of the names announced so far those of people who held senior jobs in the Barack Obama administration. But the world they’ll inherit has changed significantly, often for the worse, since they were last in power. Read […]
More than two weeks after the presidential election, there are sharp divisions between voters who supported Joe Biden and Donald Trump over nearly all aspects of the election and voting process, including whether their own votes were counted accurately. Read Here | Pew Research
It’s that on almost every front from COVID-19 response and economic rescue plans to the fate of hotspots such as Afghanistan and Iran, the outgoing president is sowing chaos within his own administration that has left every world capital in a muddle and President-elect Joe Biden in a bind. Read Here | Foreign Policy
President Donald Trump’s effort to overturn the election results is about to smash into reality: a gauntlet of battleground state deadlines that are poised to extinguish his increasingly desperate attempts to hold onto the presidency. Read Here | Politico
The NLD has scored largely because of Suu Kyi. This is despite the patchy record of the current NLD government in terms of pushing the country’s development or in taking forward the ethnic peace and reconciliation process. Hugely popular still, she is seen as someone who could stand up to the military. Read Here | […]
Third-rate think tank analysts, GOP nobodies, and absolute randos had no idea what opportunities were about to come their way when a reality TV star was elected in 2016 without a real team in place. We will not see their like again. Read Here | The National Interest
After four years of hiding behind Donald Trump while they dismantled their countries’ democratic institutions, populist leaders in Poland and Hungary have suddenly found themselves exposed and out in the cold. Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party, in particular, should be preparing for an overdue reckoning. Read Here | Project Syndicate
As Donald Trump launches a legal battle to stop Joe Biden from claiming the presidency, America is at a crossroads. Seldom has the country been more divided culturally and politically… In the coming weeks, there are bound to be fresh debates about the future of the GOP and Trump’s role in it as well as […]
Joe Biden pulled narrowly ahead of Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Friday, hours after doing the same in Georgia, making it more certain than ever that Democrats will reclaim the White House. After trailing Trump by hundreds of thousands of votes on Election Day in Pennsylvania, Biden steadily ate into his margins as more mail-in […]
Trump has probably already realized that he has lost the election even if he doesn’t want to acknowledge it publicly. He has to be thinking about two things: how to make life miserable for his successor Joe Biden and how to manage his own post-presidential career. Read Here | The National Interest
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