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Janan Ganesh

Janan Ganesh

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How Assad hoodwinked a naive West

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

12.12.2024 10

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Janan Ganesh

How the Democrats can win in 2028

The electoral coalition that Donald Trump forged last week was sensational: almost Disraelian in its marriage of the overclass and the working class....

13.11.2024 9

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Janan Ganesh

America’s fickle foreign policy is destabilising the world

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.

10.10.2024 20

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Why even good politicians are unpopular these days

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...

26.09.2024 8

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Biden was good at managing America’s decline

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...

28.08.2024 10

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Kamala Harris should distance herself from Bidenomics

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...

21.08.2024 10

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How Kamala Harris might still lose

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...

14.08.2024 9

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Feckless liberals are to blame for Biden’s downfall

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

03.07.2024 10

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Why billionaires support Trump

Business people struggle to understand fanaticism. In commercial life, all actors are negotiable, even if their price is high. They also tend to...

23.06.2024 10

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

Emmanuel Macron has concluded that power often tames radical parties or demonstrates their incompetence. His election call might be the most prudent...

12.06.2024 10

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Screen addiction is a disease. Blame wealth

Smartphone addiction, culture wars and low birth rates are all byproducts of modern success that are difficult to fix.

10.04.2024 30

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Biden must promise a more conservative second term

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...

13.03.2024 7

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Why losing US elections is a lucrative business

Life is much cushier in opposition, especially in the United States, so there’s no reason to moderate to try and win power.

28.02.2024 8

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The welcome demise of big-government Toryism

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...

10.01.2024 6

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Reports of the death of democracy are greatly exaggerated

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.

03.01.2024 10

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Why Emmanuel Macron is bravest leader of the year

The French president is probably the only Western leader to stare down public dissent at much-needed austerity measures. The rest should study his...

06.12.2023 10

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