America

Banking on Biden

Brahma Chellaney

The new president’s China policy will shape India’s cooperation and Beijing’s behaviour in Asia

Unfree Verse

Madhavankutty Pillai

What a $1 million grant for social justice poetry says about the dangers to creativity today

Dreams From Obama

S Prasannarajan

Obama's promised land is a hurt and a reward, and maybe that’s how it should be for an American who carries within him the sighs and joys of other cultures

Banana Republic, Richard II and Tughlaq

TP Sreenivasan

Hopefully, the US will redeem itself under Biden

The Liberal Waterloo

Ram Madhav

By destroying everything between the individual and the state, neo-liberals have signed their own death warrant

Trump And What Could Have Been

S Prasannarajan

Where the revenge of the outsider has not enhanced freedom but diminished it

Can’t Blame the Gods

Keerthik Sasidharan

QAnon and other Americanisms that challenge reality

Self-Reliance in a Brave New World

Siddharth Singh

China hardly buys anything while it sells everything to India. No prime minister, least al all Narendra Modi, could ignore the consequences of this skewed trade pattern