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              Janan Ganesh

              International politics commentator

              Janan Ganesh is a biweekly columnist and associate editor for the FT. He writes on international politics for the FT and culture for FT Weekend. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years.
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              • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Britain and Germany are failing differently

                Two contrasting ways of running a country are now similarly unsuccessful

                Two men in suits walk along a red carpet past a military band guard of honour in grey tunics and green berets
              • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
                EU economy
                Why Europe will not catch up with the US

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

                Mario Draghi
              • Saturday, 14 September, 2024
                Life & Arts
                A president can’t win or lose the culture war

                Fear of a woke resurgence is the weakest argument against Kamala Harris 

                Thousands of people march along a city street holding banners with slogans including woke and proud
              • Saturday, 7 September, 2024
                Life & Arts
                The middlebrow trap

                The case for mass entertainment and high art over the stuff that lies equidistant

                A man wearing a long coat and holding a bag walks on a sidewalk with street lamps
              • Tuesday, 3 September, 2024
                US presidential election 2024
                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

                Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump stands onstage with Republican vice presidential candidate, Sen. J.D. Vance
              • Saturday, 31 August, 2024
                Life & Arts
                The new Grand Tour

                Where a young westerner should go to understand their century

              • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
                US foreign policy
                What Joe Biden got right

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

                President Joe Biden
              • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
                Life & Arts
                The one advantage of an ageing world

                The chaos that was normal in the 1960s is rarer now

              • Tuesday, 20 August, 2024
                US presidential election 2024
                Harris should distance herself from Bidenomics

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

                US President Joe Biden with Vice President and 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris
              • Saturday, 17 August, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Beware the professional ghetto

                The perils of too much socialising with your peers 

                Black and white photograph of three white middle-aged men in dark suits, white shirts and dark ties, looking across as if listening to someone out of frame.
              • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
                Kamala Harris
                How Kamala Harris might still lose

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

                Democratic presidential candidate and US Vice President Kamala Harris and her vice-presidential running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz
              • Saturday, 10 August, 2024
                Life & Arts
                What has surprised me about childlessness

                There are some perverse outcomes amid all the fun

              • Tuesday, 6 August, 2024
                US presidential election 2024
                Trump’s embrace of Silicon Valley has rebounded on him

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

                Donald Trump talks with Elon Musk
              • Saturday, 3 August, 2024
                Life & Arts
                What and how to read

                The golden rule is to read as few contemporary books as possible

                A man in swimming shorts and a sunhat sits on a deck chair reading a book in front of the sea
              • Tuesday, 30 July, 2024
                US foreign policy
                The self-contradicting mess of Republican foreign policy

                American populists oppose China but like pro-Beijing strongmen

                Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping
              • Saturday, 27 July, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Why Vance-ism won’t be the future

                Trump’s genius, which is to be rightwing but not pious, is lost on his election running mate 

              • Tuesday, 23 July, 2024
                Kamala Harris
                The problem with the coronation of Kamala Harris

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

                A man’s hand holding a torch passes it to the hand of a woman
              • Saturday, 20 July, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Spain’s other victories

                Of all Europe’s old powers, Spain alone has had a good century

              • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
                US politics & policy
                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

                Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with blood on his face surrounded by secret service agents
              • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
                Geopolitics
                The weird resilience of Nato and the EU

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

                A pro-EU and Nato demonstration is seen on Hradcany Square in front of Prague Castle
              • Tuesday, 2 July, 2024
                US presidential election 2024
                Joe Biden and the tragedy of liberal denialism

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

                First lady Jill Biden, right, hugs President Joe Biden at the conclusion of a presidential debate with Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump
              • Saturday, 29 June, 2024
                Life & Arts
                What Britain gets right

                It is an unhappy country that votes on July 4, but also a modern and stabilising one

                Festival goers walk through a field beneath a giant banner calling for people to vote
              • Tuesday, 25 June, 2024
                UK general election 2024
                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

                Sir Keir Starmer
              • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
                Life & Arts
                Why billionaires support Trump

                It is not (just) greed. Business encourages contrarianism

                A man wearing a suit and red tie and with his hands spread wide sits talking to the man next to him
              • Tuesday, 18 June, 2024
                Populism
                Don’t blame neoliberalism for the rise of the hard right

                Populism is often strongest in big-spending social democracies

                President Emmanuel Macron
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