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Janan Ganesh

Chief US Political Commentator

Janan Ganesh is a biweekly columnist and associate editor for the FT. He writes on American politics for the FT and culture for FT Weekend. He was previously political correspondent for The Economist for five years.

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  • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
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    Biden confines his radicalism to the home front

    The US president’s foreign policy is strikingly continuous of Donald Trump’s

  • Friday, 30 April, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Globalisation and its mistaken discontents

    There is too much pessimism about a system that proved mostly ingenious over the past year

  • Tuesday, 27 April, 2021
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    Republicans win too often to ever change

    Their plausible recapture of Congress next year shows the low cost of extremism

  • Friday, 23 April, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The Americanisation of football? Godspeed it

    The sport has gained from US ideas in the past and will do again

  • Tuesday, 20 April, 2021
    US politics & policy
    Corporate America’s woke moment won’t last

    Business will tie itself in moral knots before succumbing to Republican tax cuts

  • Friday, 16 April, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Television’s lost art of brevity

    The epic length of TV dramas and documentaries bucks the immediacy of modern life

  • Tuesday, 13 April, 2021
    Geopolitics
    The US is too changed since the cold war to repeat it

    A raucously free society is hard to mobilise against a rival in a lasting way

  • Friday, 9 April, 2021
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    Why you should bet on London

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  • Friday, 2 April, 2021
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    Beware Goldman workhorses, deferred gratification is the worst kind

    Corporate life demands more of youth than it can later repay

  • Tuesday, 30 March, 2021
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    The US cannot be choosy about its allies

    The network of countries that worry about China are not all liberal paragons

  • Friday, 26 March, 2021
    Books
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    The late novelist was a giant, but the unexamined life is well worth living

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    The radical unavailability of Joe Biden

    The president is calming US politics by not saying very much

  • Friday, 19 March, 2021
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    Why the young should shun government for business

    The private sector has become the driver of history in my lifetime

  • Tuesday, 16 March, 2021
    Coronavirus economic impact
    America’s progressive revolution is not here yet

    Voters will have to pay higher taxes to make a transient stimulus permanent

  • Friday, 12 March, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Tribal politics in the new Washington

    Especially for the educated, politics has become just a source of identity

  • Tuesday, 9 March, 2021
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    The decline of democracy is not America’s responsibility

    The spread of freedom after the cold war was the exception to the autocratic norm

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    Ishiguro and the rise of techno-pessimism

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    Joe Biden’s popular stimulus reveals a changed America

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    Joe Biden can save global migration from the deep freeze

    Through example and sheer numbers, an open US could bring an open world

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    America’s best hope of hanging together is China

    Without an external foe to rail against, the nation turns on itself

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    On liberty, in Britain and America

    Their wildly different lockdowns reveal distinct ideas about freedom

  • Tuesday, 9 February, 2021
    US politics & policy
    Mitt Romney is the model for a new Republican party

    Unlike some anti-Trump conservatives, the senator knows policy must change too

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