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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, 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
  • Saturday, 15 June, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Europe’s real tourist trap

    The continent gets too much attention from the world to recognise its irrelevance

  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    Populism in Europe
    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

    Leader of the French far-right National Rally Marine Le Pen, left and lead candidate of the party for the upcoming European election Jordan Bardella
  • Saturday, 8 June, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Why do so few cities have everything?

    The number that can claim to hasn’t kept pace with a growing world population

    A young man and woman are walking at dusk. Behind them the skyscrapers of Manhattan glint in the setting sun
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    Keir Starmer
    No, Starmer should not be bolder

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

    Keir Starmer
  • Saturday, 1 June, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The shock of the old

    The appetite for risk often increases with age

    A close-up of a man in his sixties with one raised eyebrow
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    The Tories’ disastrous misunderstanding of America

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

    Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden
  • Saturday, 25 May, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    Rishi Sunak and the conservative dilemma 

    The right likes markets but not their cultural consequences 

    A person with their face out of shot wears a Conservative party rosette on the lapel of their jacket
  • Tuesday, 21 May, 2024
    US economy
    The lesson of the great American boom

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

    A skyline view of New York
  • Saturday, 18 May, 2024
    World
    What can and can’t be learnt from Singapore

    The island’s ultimate strength has been a lack of dogma

    People bustling through the atrium of a modern building with a view of nearby skyscrapers
  • Tuesday, 14 May, 2024
    Conservative party UK
    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

    Rishi Sunak with former prime ministers Liz Truss and Boris Johnson
  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The quest for interesting conversation

    From someone who relies on it for ideas, this is how to find it

  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
    Life & Arts
    How Michelin stars explain the world

    The west’s relative loss of power is reflected in fine dining

    A man dressed in white arranges food on a plate
  • Tuesday, 30 April, 2024
    Joe Biden
    The lesson of Biden’s transformational first term

    Eloquence and charisma are vastly overrated in politics

    A portrait photo of Joe Biden
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