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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, 16 November, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Liberals speak a different language

    ‘Gaslighting’, ‘cosplay’, ‘intentionality’ — the American left doesn’t realise how odd it sounds to most people

    A montage shows a young man with a backpack and a gesturing young woman with long hair standing in front of the words ‘performative’, ‘gaslighting’, ‘toxic’ and others
  • Wednesday, 13 November, 2024
    US politics & policy
    How the Democrats can win in 2028

    If the party changes, the US rightwing realignment won’t last

    Carl Godfrey illustration of a picture of a donkey which has been cut into 12 pieces and then put back together in the wrong order
  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The Democrats threw away a winnable election

    Harris was the wrong candidate, and the consequences could be global

    Illustration of the blue and starred section of the US flag superimposed over Trump’s smiling face
  • Saturday, 2 November, 2024
    Life & Arts
    We will be living in Trumpland for decades

    The protectionism that Trump brought back into fashion now has a momentum of its own

    A man in a suit stands on a platform carpeted red. He has his arm in the air and there is an American flag in the background
  • Wednesday, 30 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    How Trump learnt to love big business

    Nothing separates the man from his 2016 self more than his disappearing qualms about capitalism

    Carl Godfrey illustration of a torn billboard poster of Donald Trump.
  • Saturday, 26 October, 2024
    Life & Arts
    Why it is lonely in the political centre

    Genuine commitment to the middle ground is much rarer than it seems

    Two men stand on a platform talking against a backdrop of London skyscrapers
  • Wednesday, 23 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The tragedy of a 50-50 America

    The era of western stability relied on dominant parties, and the US has none

    Blue hands on the left and red hands on the right pointing at each other
  • Saturday, 19 October, 2024
    Life & Arts
    In search of art without an argument

    Why artists are so often banal or strident in their treatment of politics

  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Kamala Harris
    The difference between Harris and Starmer

    A cautious politician is easier to elect than an ambiguous one

    Carl Godfrey illustration of Keir Starmer’s and Kamala Harris’s portraits in a superimposed 3D image
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Life & Arts
    What cities owe the provinces

    The heartland votes for conservative policies that allow urban life to flourish

    A photo of the London City skyline. There are trees in the foreground and above is a big blue sky with white clouds
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Geopolitics
    US foreign policy is too volatile to lead the world

    The swings between Democratic and Republican presidents weren’t so wild in America’s heyday

    Illustration of a cutout picture of the US bald eagle in flight. There are tears in both wings and its been stuck to the wall with a piece or red tape on one wing and blue tape on the other
  • 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
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