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Janan GaneshFinancial Review |
Bashar al-Assad, Putin, Gaddafi — the free world too often gets its hopes up about despots.
The electoral coalition that Donald Trump forged last week was sensational: almost Disraelian in its marriage of the overclass and the working class....
The swings between Democratic and Republican presidents weren’t so wild in the heyday of the US. Now it’s like the New England weather.
It’s not just Keir Starmer - political leaders are on the nose around the world, and it’s not all their fault. Decades of peace and affluence have...
Between the peak of something and its ultimate demise, a vast amount can be achieved. Perhaps it took a man who became president at 78 to see the...
The US president’s high-spending protectionism is bad policy and worse politics. It has no answer to America’s brewing crisis: a public debt that...
Elections in the US are close. After almost a decade of chasing or holding the White House, Trump’s oddities are priced-in. Harris remains...
The left worldwide ignores problems on its own side, and recent history has turned on that failure.
Business people struggle to understand fanaticism. In commercial life, all actors are negotiable, even if their price is high. They also tend to...
Emmanuel Macron has concluded that power often tames radical parties or demonstrates their incompetence. His election call might be the most prudent...
Smartphone addiction, culture wars and low birth rates are all byproducts of modern success that are difficult to fix.
Biden has to do what he has always done, except recently: upset his party. The moderates who trusted him in 2020 have to know that he is theirs, not...
Life is much cushier in opposition, especially in the United States, so there’s no reason to moderate to try and win power.
When Rishi Sunak cut high-speed rail, commentators wrongly saw it as a betrayal of the red wall vision. But the nonsensical red-wall agenda was never...
The free world has shrunk, but only compared with its zenith 10 years ago. The West today is too willing to give autocrats too much credit, too soon.
The French president is probably the only Western leader to stare down public dissent at much-needed austerity measures. The rest should study his...