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Janan Ganesh

Janan Ganesh

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Economics can’t explain all the anger of voters

If it did, the US should have much healthier politics than Europe

18.12.2024 7

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The western myth of the ‘guy we can do business with’

Assad, Putin, Gaddafi — the free world too often gets its hopes up about despots

11.12.2024 6

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America’s nightmare is two feral parties

The Democrats might decide that playing by the rules has got them nowhere

04.12.2024 30

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Musk is the right man in the wrong continent

Europe’s bloated governments need his efficiency revolution much more than Washington does

27.11.2024 8

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How Britain squandered the best hand in the world

Having had three friends in high places — the US, the EU and China — the UK contemplates life with none

20.11.2024 20

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How the Democrats can win in 2028

If the party changes, the US rightwing realignment won’t last

13.11.2024 20

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The Democrats threw away a winnable election

Harris was the wrong candidate, and the consequences could be global

06.11.2024 9

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How Trump learnt to love big business

Nothing separates the man from his 2016 self more than his disappearing qualms about capitalism

30.10.2024 8

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The tragedy of a 50-50 America

The era of western stability relied on dominant parties, and the US has none

23.10.2024 10

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The difference between Harris and Starmer

A cautious politician is easier to elect than an ambiguous one

16.10.2024 20

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US foreign policy is too volatile to lead the world

The swings between Democratic and Republican presidents weren’t so wild in America’s heyday

09.10.2024 9

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The China challenge isn’t bringing Americans together

There is none of the bipartisan spirit that the cold war brought to Washington

02.10.2024 10

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The end of the popular politician

A once-common type is vanishing from the west, and it is a problem of demand not supply

25.09.2024 20

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Why Europe will not catch up with the US

America has cultural and structural advantages that governments can’t close

18.09.2024 20

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A Trump loss could stabilise US politics for a generation

The lesson of 2024 so far is that American populists have no replacement for the former president’s star power

03.09.2024 20

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What Joe Biden got right

He managed the decline of American power much better than his recent predecessors

27.08.2024 5

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Kamala Harris should distance herself from Bidenomics

The US president’s high-spending protectionism is bad policy and worse politics

20.08.2024 8

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How Kamala Harris might still lose

Polling precedent and economic data suggest the Democrats shouldn’t get ahead of themselves

13.08.2024 10

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Trump’s embrace of Silicon Valley has rebounded on him

Much of the Republicans’ ‘weirdness’ stems from their new tech friends

06.08.2024 7

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The self-contradicting mess of Republican foreign policy

American populists oppose China but like pro-Beijing strongmen

30.07.2024 20

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The problem with the coronation of Kamala Harris

Democrats fear chaos and dissent but deference to established candidates has cost them more often

23.07.2024 4

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The doom loop of modern politics

Hatred of politicians deters good people from the job, which makes government worse, which makes voters hate politicians still more

16.07.2024 10

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The weird resilience of Nato and the EU

How the west’s two most important institutions are withstanding the age of populism

09.07.2024 10

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Joe Biden and the tragedy of liberal denialism

The left ignores problems on its own side, and recent history has turned on that failure

02.07.2024 30

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Britain’s big election will be the one after this

Rethinking Brexit, the triple lock and other follies isn’t politically viable now but will be in 2029

25.06.2024 10

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Don’t blame neoliberalism for the rise of the hard right

Populism is often strongest in big-spending social democracies

18.06.2024 10

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The last best hope against populism is to expose it to government

Macron has concluded that power often tames radical parties or demonstrates their incompetence

11.06.2024 8

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No, Starmer should not be bolder

‘Bold’ is media-speak for ‘leftwing’, and Britain doesn’t need a left turn

04.06.2024 10

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The Tories’ disastrous misunderstanding of America

On trade, the right of British politics couldn’t see that the US is a foreign land

28.05.2024 30

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The lesson of the great American boom

Maybe politics, which for decades has been dysfunctional in the US, doesn’t matter that much

21.05.2024 20

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The right must own the Tory defeat

The people who brought us partygate and Liz Truss’s mini-Budget think Rishi Sunak is the problem

14.05.2024 30

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The lesson of Biden’s transformational first term

Eloquence and charisma are vastly overrated in politics

30.04.2024 40

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US Republicans aren’t good at nationalism

Stinting Ukraine will harm America in the contest with the supposed ‘real’ rival China

16.04.2024 70

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The west is suffering from its own success

Smartphone addiction, culture wars and low birth rates are byproducts of wealth

09.04.2024 10

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Britain will dislike the Labour government in no time

Voters haven’t had to think about the party’s flaws, such as its statism, for 14 years

02.04.2024 20

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Europe’s leaders have woken up to hard power

It isn’t clear that their electorates have done the same

26.03.2024 20

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The era of the unfixable problem

Refugee flows, low birth rates and left-behind regions persist because there is no answer, not because politicians are useless

19.03.2024 8

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Biden must promise a more conservative second term

His State of the Union speech was too popular with his own side to reassure swing voters

12.03.2024 30

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The problem with America’s politico-entertainment complex

Why moderate to win power when life is cushier in opposition?

27.02.2024 8

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How Europe should negotiate with Donald Trump

He is obsessed with money but his record suggests he doesn’t always drive a hard bargain

20.02.2024 20

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What Joe Biden can learn from Keir Starmer

US Democrats should reverse the tradition of Labour politicians asking them for advice

13.02.2024 9

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The west shouldn’t beg for its reputation

Dislike of the US and its allies is often muddled and vexatious

06.02.2024 20

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Welcome to the era of the non-state actor

It isn’t China or Russia who will dominate the post-American world

30.01.2024 10

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Why hasn’t populism done more economic harm?

Donald Trump, Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu have all presided over growth

23.01.2024 6

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America will not retreat from the world

Unilateralism is not the same thing as isolationism

16.01.2024 10

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The welcome demise of big-government Toryism

A ‘red wall’ agenda was never needed, feasible or all that popular

09.01.2024 20

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Putting the democratic crisis into perspective

The free world has shrunk — but from heights that were unimaginable when I was born

02.01.2024 10

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America’s cultural supremacy and geopolitical weakness

The notion of ‘decline’ is too crude to capture what is happening to the US in the 21st century

19.12.2023 20

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Sunak discovers that politics isn’t like business

Like so many politicians from the private sector, the UK prime minister doesn’t understand fanatics

12.12.2023 10

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Voters don’t want to hear the fiscal truth

For trying to do something about public debt, Emmanuel Macron is the politician of the year

05.12.2023 50

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