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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, 19 October, 2021
    US politics & policy
    America’s political and business elites no longer agree on China

    While Washington stays vigilant, the corporate world sees new opportunity

  • Saturday, 16 October, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The truth about the Anglosphere

    Geographic luck, not culture, distinguishes the ‘Five Eyes’ from much of the world 

  • Tuesday, 12 October, 2021
    US politics & policy
    Sinema and Manchin are wrong, but America needs them

    Humanising and demystifying opposition parties is a public service like no other.

  • Saturday, 9 October, 2021
    Life & Arts
    Blair, Brown and the treachery of appearances

    A flawed documentary shows how we love to put people in boxes

  • Tuesday, 5 October, 2021
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Lessons from the elusive backlash to vaccine mandates

    Acceptance shows that even in populist times, voters just want to be led

  • Saturday, 2 October, 2021
    Life & Arts
    How to talk your way to the top

    Modern habits of speech radiate weakness. Avoid them to get on

  • Tuesday, 28 September, 2021
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    Republicans will become ever more extreme to distinguish themselves from a Democrat who is enacting their ideas

  • Saturday, 25 September, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The BlackBerry and me

    What the near-extinct device says about ageing and nostalgia

  • Tuesday, 21 September, 2021
    US foreign policy
    Biden’s French snub is a warning to Europe

    The EU should make its own arrangements as the US turns to Asia

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  • Tuesday, 14 September, 2021
    California
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    A once-exceptional state now typifies the nation in prospering despite its political dysfunction

  • Saturday, 11 September, 2021
    Life & Arts
    The lockdown epiphany that wasn’t

    I seem to be rare in my class in not looking at the world anew

  • Tuesday, 7 September, 2021
    US foreign policy
    The US foreign policy blob will win in the end

    Intervention overseas is too ingrained in Washington for presidents to resist for long

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    Populism
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    Republican admiration for the likes of Viktor Orban ignores the big question of foreign policy

  • Saturday, 7 August, 2021
    Life & Arts
    How the pandemic will change suburbia

    With professionals drawn in and migrants priced out, the outskirts could revert to type

  • Tuesday, 3 August, 2021
    Joe Biden
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    The US president’s identity buys him an implicit trust that is unique among Democrats

  • Saturday, 31 July, 2021
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    Vaccination and the bonfire of Asian clichés

    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
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    Life & Arts
    America’s upper lip is stiffer than England’s

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    US politics & policy
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    Life & Arts
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  • 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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