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Janan Ganesh

Janan Ganesh

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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 5

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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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