India's approaching democratic crisis

In India, we will soon face a variation of this problem, created by the differing demographic, cultural and economic trajectories of various parts of the country

Over in the United States, the Democratic Party has had a very bad week. President Joe Biden, speaking at the COP26 climate change conference in Glasgow, went through the motions of noting that countries like China, Russia and others had not committed sufficiently to, among other things, phasing out coal-fired power on time. Yet most of those watching knew that Mr Biden himself could not credibly commit the United States to action, given that he is largely unable to get his own agenda through a Washington that his party nominally controls, thanks in part to firm objections from a pivotal