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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, 3 August, 2021
    Joe Biden
    Why Joe Biden is such an elusive target for his critics

    The US president’s identity buys him an implicit trust that is unique among Democrats

  • Saturday, 31 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
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    Take-up rates in Japan and elsewhere confound the trope of herd-like deference

  • Tuesday, 27 July, 2021
    Populism
    Vaccination race reveals two distinct populisms

    US Republicans have a more anarchic vision than some parties they are often grouped with

  • Saturday, 24 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Mourning the expat city state

    Dubai, Singapore and Hong Kong offered a kind of freedom that grander cities can’t

  • Tuesday, 20 July, 2021
    Social Media
    To curse social media is to exonerate society

    The demand for vaccine disinformation is more troubling than the supply of it

  • Saturday, 17 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
    America’s upper lip is stiffer than England’s

    England is prone to mass emotion precisely because it bottles so much up

  • Tuesday, 13 July, 2021
    US politics & policy
    The real separation of powers in modern America

    Left has unfair privilege in culture and the right in politics

  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Afghanistan: the war that film forgot

    The screen’s neglect of the conflict illustrates the modern incapacity for despair

  • Tuesday, 6 July, 2021
    Geopolitics
    America’s economic boom and civic bust

    The story is not that a rich country is so politically broken but that a politically broken country is so rich

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    Life & Arts
    The mechanisation of the beautiful game

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  • Tuesday, 29 June, 2021
    US foreign policy
    The US will prefer a China contest to the forever wars

    Great-power politics suits America more than nation building

  • Saturday, 26 June, 2021
    Life & Arts
    A city can die of liveability

    Post-pandemic visions for urban life promise creative decline

  • Tuesday, 22 June, 2021
    US healthcare reform
    What the parable of Obamacare teaches Republicans

    The party can win a culture war but not a class war

  • Friday, 18 June, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The capitalist case for taxing business

    Forcing multinationals to pay up would reverse the trend of corporate sanctimony

  • Tuesday, 15 June, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Britain can expect few favours from Biden

    The US president is shoring up global norms that the UK government has challenged

  • Friday, 11 June, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Meritocracy is no match for the alpha-couple

    ‘Assortative mating’ is not just bad for social mobility, it is boring

  • Tuesday, 8 June, 2021
    US politics & policy
    The last laugh of the Clintons

    In the Senate at least, the Democratic right lives again

  • Friday, 4 June, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The real threat to the empire of English

    It is not Mandarin or translation tech that muddies the language’s prospects, but the rise of bullshit

  • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
    US politics & policy
    Don’t judge the US by its politics

    The high Covid vaccination rate suggests a deceptively cohesive and governable nation

  • Friday, 28 May, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Europe is made for a grounded world

    If air travel wanes in our post-Covid future, nowhere will be better to live than a small, treasure-crammed continent

  • Tuesday, 25 May, 2021
    Joe Biden
    Biden may have to choose between cultural and economic radicalism

    History shows that Americans can only tolerate so much change at any given time

  • Friday, 7 May, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The myth-making of nations

    Globalism is a thin identity, but it’s an honest one

  • Tuesday, 4 May, 2021
    US politics & policy
    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
    Republican Party US
    Republicans win too often to ever change

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

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