Trump has ditched pretence around American exceptionalismUS Politics: President has replaced rhetoric with US naked interest-driven statecraftThu Nov 29 2018 - 01:00
Nancy Pelosi’s House fight is a portent of battles to comeUS politics: With 2020 presidential race ahead, the speakership tussle is just a tasterThu Nov 22 2018 - 01:00
The era of estrangement between America and EuropePresidents come and go, as do their tiffs. Even Macron and Trump get along at timesThu Nov 15 2018 - 01:00
Trump has been normalised in many voters’ eyesUS politics: Defeat of president in 2020 will be about presenting him as elitistThu Nov 08 2018 - 01:00
America’s politics of absolutes fuels ideological violenceUS Politics: Pittsburgh synagogue attack shows necessity of moderating rhetoricThu Nov 01 2018 - 01:00
Donald Trump is a dealmaker – but not necessarily a good oneJanan Ganesh: US’s allies should note its president is negotiable on much, and at affordable costThu Oct 25 2018 - 01:00
Trump’s war on Obamacare has backfired on RepublicansUS Politics: President’s unforced error is helping Democrats in midterm electionsThu Oct 18 2018 - 01:00
Democrats should learn from Mitch McConnell – even as they abhor himUS Politics: Developing trend of Democratic Party suggests a certain innocenceThu Oct 11 2018 - 01:00
Triumph of American values has left US unsure of its own identityUS Politics: How does a nation define itself when what made it distinct has become commonplace?Thu Oct 04 2018 - 01:00
Trump has no good options but there is a way out of his supreme court problemThe US president’s interests and those of nominee Brett Kavanaugh are not alignedThu Sept 27 2018 - 01:00
America can no longer carry the world on its shouldersJanan Ganesh: Selfish logic of Trump’s America First doctrine will be aped by future presidentsThu Sept 20 2018 - 09:59
Trump era may mark the last gasp of the religious rightJanan Ganesh: Evangelicals face a bleaker future despite their bargain with presidentThu Sept 06 2018 - 01:00
Populism was not sparked by the financial crisisJanan Ganesh: The crash just brought to the surface what was already extant and pumpingThu Aug 30 2018 - 01:00
Janan Ganesh: Trump’s future will be settled by politics, not lawUS constitution requires two-thirds majority of Senate for president’s removalThu Aug 23 2018 - 01:00
US Democrats are rediscovering identity politicsJanan Ganesh: They needed to start distinguishing one kind of American from anotherThu Aug 16 2018 - 01:00
Isolationism is the wrong charge to throw at Donald TrumpUS Politics: The president still participates in the world – just not in the way his critics wantThu Aug 09 2018 - 01:00
After Trump, the GOP must accept a new kind of RepublicanismThe party can retrench or learn to helm, not dismantle, an interventionist stateThu Aug 02 2018 - 01:00
Steve Bannon’s rumpled silhouette still stalks US politicsJanan Ganesh: Trump wants clear theme – and Bannon’s programme remains clearestThu Jul 26 2018 - 01:00
The Trump Doctrine has no support – even in the White HouseUS Politics: President’s foreign policy will last no longer than the time he remains in officeThu Jul 19 2018 - 01:00
Janan Ganesh: Left turn could be a dead end for the DemocratsIt is easy to mistake the failures of 2016 as a cry for a more radical manifestoThu Jul 12 2018 - 10:32
Economic rights being eroded under US liberals’ nosesJanan Ganesh: Trump legal nomination likely to grind towards further deregulationThu Jul 05 2018 - 01:01
How America learned to stop worrying and love the budget deficitUS Politics: The US public – and its politicians – has lost its appetite for budget-balancingThu Jun 28 2018 - 01:00
Donald Trump seeking to close door on all immigration to USJanan Ganesh: Cutting number of legal immigrants will be nextThu Jun 21 2018 - 01:00
Janan Ganesh: Polling booth the safest way to beat Donald TrumpHistory teaches us that impeachment could poison body politic for decades to comeFri Jun 15 2018 - 01:00
The real cost of Brexit: all the things that are not being doneUK Politics: These are Britain’s Lost Years. We can only guess how many of them there will beTue May 29 2018 - 01:00
Tory Brexiteers should hope for another election – and soonUK Politics: Conservatives are in reasonable shape after this month’s local electionsMon May 21 2018 - 19:34
Janan Ganesh: Leavers prepare their Brexit betrayal narrativeUK Politics: Leavers demand everything from Brexit deal except their names on paperTue May 15 2018 - 01:00
British voters want things to change, but largely stay the sameUK Politics: The mood of the electorate amounts to a kind of constructive indecisionTue May 08 2018 - 15:21
With no sense of direction, Theresa May is the plaything of eventsUK Politics: The British prime minister has no quest beyond Brexit and her own survivalTue May 01 2018 - 01:00
May’s migrant stance result of over-compensation not ideologyNuisance brews for PM as Windrush emigrants command sympathies of nationTue Apr 24 2018 - 01:00
A new British centrist party could win over voters – but not yetUK Politics: The populist age is everywhere but on the statute books, at least for nowTue Apr 17 2018 - 01:00
What Brexit’s brokers can learn from the Belfast Agreement’s fudgesJanan Ganesh: Good Friday deal blended high ideals with earthly political craftTue Apr 10 2018 - 01:00
Theresa May displays grit of the old-fashioned English footballerJanan Ganesh: PM’s survival is an astonishing tribute to her ability to absorb stressTue Apr 03 2018 - 11:51
Why Britain is putting its Brexit eggs in Three BasketsJanan Ganesh: The latest proposal for future UK-EU relations is yet another play for timeTue Feb 27 2018 - 01:00
As a call for resistance, ‘Enlightenment Now’ is a howl into the windUK Politics: Should liberals defend globalism or match populists’ drastic promises?Tue Feb 20 2018 - 01:00
Time for Brexiteers to let us in on their sovereign visionUK Politics: Hard Leavers have moral duty to paint vague portrait of post-Brexit freedomTue Feb 13 2018 - 01:00
The sudden relevance of Jacob Rees-MoggUK Politics: The Tories are so drained of talent that almost anyone can aspire to lead themTue Feb 06 2018 - 01:00
Ditching Theresa May will not alter the course of BrexitUK politics: what blinder would a new prime minister play that May is not able to?Tue Jan 30 2018 - 01:00
Tory party should rekindle its warmth for businessTheresa May’s attitude to markets amounts to the intellectual self-disarmament of her partyTue Jan 23 2018 - 01:00
Britain and France tend not to thrive at the same timeEmmanuel Macron displays regal certainties just as Britain turns hesitantly inwardsTue Jan 16 2018 - 10:39
Calls for specific NHS tax almost welcome for Brexit-focused MayJanan Ganesh: Absence of politics paints NHS as benevolent spirit not costly systemTue Jan 09 2018 - 01:00
Politicians should stop showing shame at their own existenceUK Politics: Self-abasing political leaders invite only more disdain from disaffected electorateTue Jan 02 2018 - 17:07
Loveless loyalty to Theresa May comes at a price for the ToriesEndurance testifies to PM’s tactical artfulness and personal fibre, but Brexit has been the real career-saverTue Dec 19 2017 - 01:00
Britain will have to choose next year between unattractive futuresUK Politics: London and Brussels should aspire to a Brexit trade deal but take their time about itTue Dec 12 2017 - 01:00
Britain’s Brexiteers surprise us with their realismUK Politics: Leavers have been on what a Californian life coach might call a ‘journey’Tue Dec 05 2017 - 01:00
Sluggish growth will test British voters’ enduranceUK Politics: Brexit may turn out to be a mid-stage event in a longer meltdown of trustTue Nov 28 2017 - 17:29
British politics has entered a post-rigour periodUK Politics: Philip Hammond’s Tory critics lack the experience to know betterTue Nov 21 2017 - 07:48
Brexit’s lacklustre political champions are the biggest threat to the projectGordon Brown’s memoirs illustrate the stamina and seriousness needed to reshape UKTue Nov 14 2017 - 01:00
Britain is exposed to bad governments like almost nowhere in the worldUK Politics: Little protects the British public from a weak, or strong but wrong, governmentTue Nov 07 2017 - 01:00
Direct democracy threatens way we are governedPolitics: There are actually a number of dark futures to which our system can succumbTue Oct 31 2017 - 15:53
