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Janan Ganesh

Janan Ganesh

Financial Times

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Pity the middle-sized nations of the world

Small countries have the best outcomes, while the few giants shape the globe

08.01.2025 40

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Things have to get worse to get better

Voters can’t be sold on change until their nation is in acute trouble

01.01.2025 10

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The western myth of the ‘guy we can do business with’

Assad, Putin, Gaddafi — the free world too often gets its hopes up about despots

11.12.2024 4

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America’s nightmare is two feral parties

The Democrats might decide that playing by the rules has got them nowhere

04.12.2024 20

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The difference between Harris and Starmer

A cautious politician is easier to elect than an ambiguous one

16.10.2024 10

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US foreign policy is too volatile to lead the world

The swings between Democratic and Republican presidents weren’t so wild in America’s heyday

09.10.2024 1

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The end of the popular politician

A once-common type is vanishing from the west, and it is a problem of demand not supply

25.09.2024 10

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Why Europe will not catch up with the US

America has cultural and structural advantages that governments can’t close

18.09.2024 10

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A Trump loss could stabilise US politics for a generation

The lesson of 2024 so far is that American populists have no replacement for the former president’s star power

03.09.2024 10

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Kamala Harris should distance herself from Bidenomics

The US president’s high-spending protectionism is bad policy and worse politics

20.08.2024 2

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How Kamala Harris might still lose

Polling precedent and economic data suggest the Democrats shouldn’t get ahead of themselves

13.08.2024 10

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Trump’s embrace of Silicon Valley has rebounded on him

Much of the Republicans’ ‘weirdness’ stems from their new tech friends

06.08.2024 4

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The self-contradicting mess of Republican foreign policy

American populists oppose China but like pro-Beijing strongmen

30.07.2024 10

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The problem with the coronation of Kamala Harris

Democrats fear chaos and dissent but deference to established candidates has cost them more often

23.07.2024 2

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The doom loop of modern politics

Hatred of politicians deters good people from the job, which makes government worse, which makes voters hate politicians still more

16.07.2024 10

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