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Rich democracies need an acute crisis to trigger real change

It is almost impossible to sell voters on drastic reforms until their nation is in acute trouble. The chronic kind isn’t enough.

Janan Ganesh

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

The electoral coalition that Donald Trump forged last week was sensational: almost Disraelian in its marriage of the overclass and the working...

The swings between Democratic and Republican presidents weren’t so wild in the heyday of the US. Now it’s like the New England weather.

It’s not just Keir Starmer - political leaders are on the nose around the world, and it’s not all their fault. Decades of peace and affluence...

The US president’s high-spending protectionism is bad policy and worse politics. It has no answer to America’s brewing crisis: a public debt that...

Elections in the US are close. After almost a decade of chasing or holding the White House, Trump’s oddities are priced-in. Harris remains...