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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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  • Friday, 29 April, 2022
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  • Tuesday, 26 April, 2022
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  • Friday, 22 April, 2022
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    No country for young men

    The US right is selling the impressionable an ever weirder vision of maleness

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  • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
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    The idea that America needs a tough guy in charge will have more takers than it did before

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
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    Energy, not the tech sector, is still the motor of history

  • Tuesday, 22 March, 2022
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    The Ukraine war is not about democracy versus autocracy

    The US will need the help of some illiberal states to prevail over Russia and China

  • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
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    There are tentative signs of voters and politicians directing their animus outward

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    Beware the downwardly mobile

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    It is not the moral stain, but the blow to the idea that autocrats are competent

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    The debt that pleasure owes to power

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  • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
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    Enemies of the west see it as an oppressor and a decadent pushover at the same time

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    The US has behaved too differently to be classed as part of an English-speaking club

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    Life & Arts
    How Beatlemania holds us back

    People obsess over the band because modern culture is so static

  • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
    Democratic Party US
    The post-pandemic revolution isn’t coming

    The left overrates public anger at the US economic model of 2019

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