America’s best hope for internal healing is enmity with ChinaUS Letter: Common purpose against a giant ‘other’ is what US has lacked for too longWed Feb 17 2021 - 03:00
Mitt Romney points way out of mess for US conservatismUS Politics: Denouncing Trump is brave but it is also the howlingly obvious way forwardTue Feb 09 2021 - 18:16
Janan Ganesh: Joe Biden’s success will be hard to emulate elsewhereUS Politics: The weakness of America’s welfare state gives Democrats a raison d’etreWed Feb 03 2021 - 15:53
Joe Biden can bring either unity or change – not bothUS Politics: There is no harmonious way to the kind of society Democrats wish to buildWed Jan 27 2021 - 13:13
Joe Biden’s presidency might be liberal democracy’s last chanceUS Politics: The West needs a success story for its own morale as much as its outward reputationWed Jan 20 2021 - 13:43
US Republicans are in for a vicious and open-ended struggleUS Politics: Republican moderates probably won’t prevail in battle for party’s soulWed Jan 13 2021 - 15:51
US on course for a less than revolutionary administrationReal winners from the age of divisive and partisan politics are those who hate it mostTue Jan 05 2021 - 17:16
Most global crises leave a lesson for the world, but not this pandemicPolitics: No governmental model has consistently outperformed its rivals against Covid-19Wed Dec 30 2020 - 14:41
This was a bad year for the US – but let’s focus on the positivesUS Politics: The events of 2020 showed the quiet resilience of the US systemWed Dec 23 2020 - 14:23
Glut of frustrated elites overlooked in West’s political turmoilUS Politics: An academic blames ‘elite overproduction’ for breeding resentment in societyWed Dec 02 2020 - 15:06
Joe Biden’s foreign policy must be underpinned by pragmatismUS Politics: Incoming president needs to avoid moral idealism that has cost the US dearlyWed Nov 25 2020 - 19:14
Democrats face disintegration without detested Trump as their glueUS Politics: Biden must hold fractious party together and work for disparate groupsTue Nov 17 2020 - 16:20
Joe Biden faces an impossible job to unify AmericaPresident-elect’s aim is almost childlike in its innocence in a deeply partisan nationThu Nov 12 2020 - 18:41
Liberals should worry about lack of US election landslideUS Politics: Deep dread as Trump stays resilient and electorally competitiveWed Nov 04 2020 - 20:24
Republicans need to remember that Donald Trump broke through for a reasonUS politics: If there is a future for the US right after Trump, it will have to resemble Ike’s benign statismWed Oct 21 2020 - 18:32
Freezing of US borders neutralises Trump’s anti-immigrant charmsUS politics: Still unclear what Trump wants to do with second term as election day loomsWed Oct 14 2020 - 18:50
Don’t be misled by his balcony moment – Donald Trump is no MussoliniUS Politics: The American president’s faults are more libertarian than authoritarianWed Oct 07 2020 - 15:57
Joe Biden is dodging the culture war to focus on class – and he’s rightUS Politics: Democratic candidate knows that voters prioritise the economy and healthcare over all elseWed Sept 30 2020 - 15:31
Lack of enthusiasm for Joe Biden is a positive turn for AmericaUS Politics: After messianic Trump and Obama eras the US could do with less emotionThu Sept 17 2020 - 12:09
Donald Trump succeeds in dragging Biden to the wrong fightUS Politics: With focus on law-and-order subtleties, Biden cannot focus on the Covid disasterThu Sept 03 2020 - 13:40
Kamala Harris’s policy vagueness could yet be a drawbackPeculiarly blank canvas of Joe Biden’s running mate may be opportunity for TrumpThu Aug 13 2020 - 17:34
Donald Trump’s problem is that he is not authoritarian enoughUS Politics: It is the president’s lack of grip, rather than an iron fist, that has sunk his chancesThu Aug 06 2020 - 13:37
How Donald Trump acts as a restraining influence on Mike PompeoUS Politics: President’s materialism is in contrast to moral imperatives of his secretary of stateThu Jul 30 2020 - 12:28
Americans should not count on a quiet life under Joe BidenUS Politics: Democratic candidate could be the most radical US president in decadesThu Jul 23 2020 - 11:26
US is sliding into conflict with China with eerily little debateUS Politics: Absence of dissenting voices on issue of momentous importance is unnervingThu Jul 16 2020 - 10:50
Donald Trump is an amateur populist – the real trouble is yet to comeUS Politics: Ineffectual president will likely be succeeded by more diligent anti-liberalsThu Jul 09 2020 - 11:06
World, look away now – these are dark days for the United StatesUS Politics: America is like an actor no longer in his prime but still hounded by paparazziThu Jul 02 2020 - 05:00
How American conservatives lost the culture warUS Politics: Recent statue-felling is an outward expression of decades of social changeThu Jun 25 2020 - 01:00
Don’t expect Biden to revive the Atlantic allianceUS Politics: Nato’s charter claims of ‘common heritage’ reads quainter by the yearThu Jun 18 2020 - 15:49
US protests have complicated Joe Biden’s path to the presidencyUS Politics: Safety-first campaign no longer adequate for Democrats’ election candidateThu Jun 11 2020 - 06:01
A US nakedly at odds with itself is in no position to take on ChinaUS Politics: Sowing disunity at home is a bad tactic for a president seeking a winnable showdown abroadThu Jun 04 2020 - 01:00
Donald Trump has one last chance to ensure his re-electionUS Politics: President has a path back to the White House and just enough time to actThu May 28 2020 - 10:38
China has much to lose from a Joe Biden presidencyUS Politics: If there is to be another cold war, it should be fought with the subtlety of the firstThu May 21 2020 - 10:44
Coronavirus shows society in better shape than we thoughtUS Politics: It is natural to anticipate better days, but there is good news already behind usThu May 14 2020 - 09:50
Bonhomie but no brotherhood: The authoritarian bloc that never wasWhile their domestic autocracy is real, as a group – including Trump, Bolsonaro, Modi and others – their coherence is overstatedWed Apr 22 2020 - 17:35
Unprepossessing Joe Biden has a great chance to make his mark on historyJanan Ganesh: Little was expected from US president Harry Truman but he proved a surpriseThu Apr 16 2020 - 01:00
US Democrats beware: vindication doesn’t ensure victoryAtmosphere is ripe for party of big government to sweep elections – but that’s nothing newThu Apr 09 2020 - 10:27
Coronavirus exposing true state of global affairs in 21st centuryUS Politics: No single country or bloc is strong enough to lead the world to a solutionThu Apr 02 2020 - 14:00
Trump is gambling with coronavirus – and so far he’s winningUS Politics: President’s ratings at all-time high in spite of inept response to Covid-19Thu Mar 26 2020 - 10:57
Bernie Sanders will never be US president, but his ideas have won the dayUS Politics: Coronavirus crisis has been the making of Democratic contender’s worldviewWed Mar 18 2020 - 16:33
No man is an island? Think againCoronavirus: working from home is the future, get used to itFri Mar 13 2020 - 16:21
Biden’s surge shows American political centre is still robustUS Politics: Super Tuesday shows that the non-radical vote remains awesome in sizeWed Mar 04 2020 - 15:01
Even left-wing Democrats baulk at Europe’s idea of social democracyUS Politics: Sanders and Warren want nothing more radical than taxing the 1%Wed Feb 26 2020 - 17:00
How a Democrat might widen the US-China feudUS Politics: Trump could be better than high-minded idealists at containing BeijingWed Feb 19 2020 - 16:59
Sanders could beat Trump – but is he worth the risk for Democrats?US Politics: Parallels between capable socialist senator and Jeremy Corbyn do not ring trueWed Feb 12 2020 - 18:00
Fragmented Democrat moderates inch towards deathUS politics: Range of presidential hopefuls is sign of party weakness – not strengthWed Feb 05 2020 - 20:30
How Republicans came to deify the presidencyUS Politics: Trump’s acquittal will reflect deference towards the office as well as partisanshipWed Jan 29 2020 - 15:33
America is still waiting for a true populistUS Politics: Voters crave universal healthcare, taxing the rich and tighter bordersThu Jan 23 2020 - 18:50
Joe Biden represents a welcome portal to the past for US alliesUS Politics: The most ‘European’ Democratic candidates are the least helpful to its interestsWed Jan 15 2020 - 20:00
Chest-beating quality of America First makes conflict inevitableUS Politics: American jingoism longs both for the quiet life and to answer provocationsWed Jan 08 2020 - 14:25
