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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, 5 October, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Can liberals be trusted with liberalism?

    If the woke movement is now fading, it wasn’t the sensible centre that beat it back

    A group of people sit outside at a restaurant table. There’s a large group of protesters outside waving placards
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    US politics & policy
    The China challenge isn’t bringing Americans together

    There is none of the bipartisan spirit that the cold war brought to Washington

    Illustration of a slingshot which has two elastic straps, each being pulled in the opposite direction so as to be aimed at each other
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    Politics
    The end of the popular politician

    A once-common type is vanishing from the west, and it is a problem of demand not supply

    Illustration of a podium and microphones with squashed tomatoes sliding down the podium and on the floor around it
  • 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
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