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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, 20 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    OJ Simpson and the paradox of American power

    As the country loses clout, it holds the world’s attention more

  • Tuesday, 16 April, 2024
    Republican Party US
    US Republicans aren’t good at nationalism

    Stinting Ukraine will harm America in the contest with the supposed ‘real’ rival China

    Josh Hawley talks to reporters in Washington
  • Saturday, 13 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The myth of the second chance

    The self-help industry suggests all mistakes in life are retrievable. Middle age teaches us otherwise

    On a pebble beach, a young woman walks away from a man
  • Tuesday, 9 April, 2024
    Populism
    The west is suffering from its own success

    Smartphone addiction, culture wars and low birth rates are byproducts of wealth

    The toppled statue of the Confederate sailor Charles Linn in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2020
  • Saturday, 6 April, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The price of peace is stagnation

    As well as being the worst thing our species does, war is a creative spur

    A painting of a room with nurses and injured soldiers, with a tombstone at the centre
  • Tuesday, 2 April, 2024
    Labour party UK
    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

    Labour leader Keir Starmer, with Angela Rayner (left) and Rachel Reeves, arriving with his shadow cabinet in central London last year
  • Saturday, 30 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Britain’s war on everything it is good at

    Finance, foreign students, even the Premier League — the UK resents its strengths

  • Tuesday, 26 March, 2024
    Geopolitics
    Europe’s leaders have woken up to hard power

    It isn’t clear that their electorates have done the same

    A man in a suit hugs a woman in a suit at a gathering of heads of state
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The rise of bleak chic

    All the social incentives are to be a pessimist 

    A view over London on a grey day
  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2024
    UK public policy
    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

    Two men in high-visibility orange vests and hard hats shake hands
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Europe? What a country

    Whether or not it ever truly unites, the continent is, by global standards, one place

  • Tuesday, 12 March, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    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

    A man in a suit gestures with his hand from a podium
  • Tuesday, 27 February, 2024
    US politics & policy
    The problem with America’s politico-entertainment complex

    Why moderate to win power when life is cushier in opposition?

    A woman in a red suit waves at crowds from a podium during a US election event
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Vietnam and the art of not choosing

    Lessons from the nation most poised between the US and China

  • Tuesday, 20 February, 2024
    Donald Trump
    How Europe should negotiate with Donald Trump

    He is obsessed with money but his record suggests he doesn’t always drive a hard bargain

    Donald Trump, then the US president, talks with Germany’s Angela Merkel and France’s Emmanuel Macron at the G20 in 2017
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The parable of Soho House

    The most important social tensions are within the elite, not between the elite and the people

    A row of red and white striped seats
  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    Politics
    What Joe Biden can learn from Keir Starmer

    US Democrats should reverse the tradition of Labour politicians asking them for advice

    Montage image of Joe Biden and Keir Starmer with their respective party logos
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The rise of the political casual

    The age of apathy made for better company and less dangerous politics

    A person holds a sign in the air that reads ‘Down with this sort of thing’
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Geopolitics
    The west shouldn’t beg for its reputation

    Dislike of the US and its allies is often muddled and vexatious

    The Peace Palace, which houses the International Court of Justice
  • Friday, 2 February, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The digital age hasn’t gone far enough

    The fuss about AI obscures how many of life’s inconveniences have survived technology

    Overhead shot of people waiting in a queue
  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
    Geopolitics
    Welcome to the era of the non-state actor

    It isn’t China or Russia who will dominate the post-American world

    Houthi fighters brandish weapons in Yemen
  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Could there be a liberal demagogue?

    There is a gap in politics for someone who is populist in style but moderate in content

    Donald and Melania Trump with French president Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte stand near a big stone carving
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    Populism
    Why hasn’t populism done more economic harm?

    Donald Trump, Narendra Modi and Benjamin Netanyahu have all presided over growth

    Republican presidential candidate former president Donald Trump walking off stage with the US flag in the middle
  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Life & Arts
    The world is better seen from Dubai than from Davos

    The Gulf state city shows that globalisation isn’t so much dying as moving east

    A citiscape
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    US foreign policy
    America will not retreat from the world

    Unilateralism is not the same thing as isolationism

    US President Joe Biden
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