Oxymoronic but essential – a democracy czar

Abrams could build on her success in Georgia at the national level. — Reuters

WHEN Joe Biden becomes president on Jan 20, he will face an unprecedented number of crises. An unabated global pandemic. An increasingly unequal and fragile economy on the verge of recession. A climate rapidly worsening. A generational fight for racial justice causing a society-wide reckoning.

All are monumental, potentially existential challenges. But it will be impossible to make progress on any of these problems without addressing perhaps the most profound crisis the new administration will face – the crisis in democracy itself.