No grand theory can explain the Ukraine crisisPolitics: The past couple of months have been embarrassing for intellectual eleganceTue Apr 12 2022 - 15:47
The Ukraine war is not about democracy versus autocracyJoe Biden likely to need help of some very illiberal states to prevail against RussiaTue Mar 22 2022 - 17:29
A divided US hangs together on the question of UkraineUS Politics: Notable resolution of Republicans on unifying issue one that is underratedTue Mar 15 2022 - 18:00
Why the Ukraine crisis is so bad for western populistsPolitics: Central to the appeal of populism is the idea of the effective strongman. Recent events are showing us the fumbling strongmanWed Mar 09 2022 - 17:48
Janan Ganesh: The incoherence at the heart of anti-westernismThe West can’t stop its rivals reading it wrong, but it can choose not to encourage themTue Mar 01 2022 - 18:11
How Republicans stopped losing the US culture warUS Politics: Judges and overreaching progressives have helped achieve a small recoveryTue Feb 01 2022 - 17:37
How Ukraine question divides the American right‘For a party many years into an illiberal drift, Republicans are oddly firm in defence of Ukraine’Tue Jan 25 2022 - 17:59
How the pandemic exposed the myth of the AnglosphereUS Politics: America is different – those who fawn over it most, understand it leastTue Jan 18 2022 - 17:49
US public’s desire for revolution is a figment of Democrats’ imaginationUS Politics: Most people want a return to pre-pandemic normality, not drastic changeTue Jan 11 2022 - 18:14
Civic peace looks untenable in America’s futureUS Politics: Terrible internal violence with riots and assassinations may hover on horizonTue Jan 04 2022 - 18:00
Trump’s vaccine heresy shows populism has separated from its heroesUS Politics: It is a creed, not just a personality cult, to judge by the anger at the former presidentWed Dec 29 2021 - 15:00
The right must stop treating ‘appeasement’ as the root of all evilUS Politics: A misreading of history has led to a botched US policy on Iran and has bolstered BrexitWed Dec 22 2021 - 17:14
America’s self-reproach for China’s rise is unwarrantedThis pretence of humility is actually the most fantastical claim of omnipotenceTue Dec 14 2021 - 18:01
Grinning is winning: The US right is awash with laughing cavaliersUS Politics: The West’s problem is one of casual disregard, which is not to minimise itTue Dec 07 2021 - 18:18
Joe Biden’s democracy summit risks flattering the enemyUS Politics: The democratic faultline runs mostly through countries, not between themTue Nov 30 2021 - 17:02
Biden’s failure to contain the pandemic is the central fact of his presidencyUS Politics: President has made a string of unforced errors in dealing with Covid-19Wed Nov 24 2021 - 10:03
US Republicans can still throw their advantage awayUS Politics: Biden’s work could yet bear fruit against a party that refuses to purge extremistsWed Nov 17 2021 - 14:55
Democrats must look beyond Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for 2024US Politics: Donald Trump could face a beatable opponent through sheer Democratic inertiaTue Nov 02 2021 - 17:11
Joe Biden’s trouble? He overestimated the clamour for changeUS Politics: President was elected for narrow purposes – retire Trump and give Americans a breatherTue Oct 26 2021 - 15:32
The US’s political and business elites no longer agree on ChinaUS Politics: Vigilance to Beijing is nearest thing to bipartisan verity in WashingtonTue Oct 19 2021 - 17:31
America needs political waverers like Sinema and ManchinUS Politics: For both senators, the basis of their opposition matters less than the fact of itTue Oct 12 2021 - 20:48
Joe Biden is a truer populist than Donald Trump ever wasUS Politics: After only nine months in office, pattern of Biden’s presidency is hard to mistakeWed Sept 29 2021 - 13:41
Janan Ganesh: Biden’s French snub a warning to EuropeUS willing to bruise France, and upset much of Europe over Afghan exit, as its priority is ChinaTue Sept 21 2021 - 17:51
California’s financial success defies its political dysfunctionAs with the wider country, the state’s economy survives growing issues of governanceWed Sept 15 2021 - 12:02
America on the verge of isolationism? Expect another small war quite soonUS Politics: It takes superhuman discipline to possess awesome power without using itWed Sept 08 2021 - 13:57
US right caught between confronting China and courting populist strongmenPandering to foreign nationalists crosses from the eccentric to the self-harmingTue Aug 10 2021 - 19:12
Why Joe Biden is such an elusive target for his criticsUS Politics: The president is acting out that US paradox – the fuddy-duddy reformerWed Aug 04 2021 - 13:45
Two distinct populisms are at work in the world todayUS Politics: The US form of populism threatens entropy, not sinister orderTue Jul 27 2021 - 17:52
Don’t blame social media for people’s partiality to nonsenseUS Politics: Great torrents of quackery wash through Facebook, but so do facts about vaccine efficacyTue Jul 20 2021 - 13:58
America’s left and right both have privileges but neither is decisiveUS politics: System adds up to a workable stalemate of Republicans and DemocratsWed Jul 14 2021 - 20:37
Prosperity has freed US voters to toy with extremismUS Politics: America’s economic and civic prospects could hardly be more divergentWed Jul 07 2021 - 13:00
A superpower tussle is a beguiling return to the familiar for WashingtonUS Politics: Struggle with a state like China offers the possibility of reversing the collapse of national cohesion after 9/11Tue Jun 29 2021 - 15:40
What the parable of Obamacare teaches RepublicansUS Politics: There is no future for the GOP as a small-government crusadeTue Jun 22 2021 - 17:43
Britain can expect few favours from Joe BidenUS Politics: The UK’s approach to global norms and the logic of Brexit create distanceTue Jun 15 2021 - 15:31
Janan Ganesh: The US’s vaunted turn to the left is plainly stallingThe Democratic right may be out of favour – but it has a decisive say in running the countryWed Jun 09 2021 - 13:11
America’s vaccination success shows its divisions are exaggeratedUS Politics: Evidence suggests the nation’s bitter politics do not dictate social outcomesWed Jun 02 2021 - 11:50
Joe Biden’s mandate is frail – he needs to choose his battlesUS Politics: There is only so much change a society will bear at one timeThu May 27 2021 - 13:26
Biden’s early foreign policy strikingly in tune with TrumpUS Politics: President’s approach signifies an authentic hardening of views on the centre-leftThu May 06 2021 - 11:41
Blame the US electorate for the Republican Party’s successUS Politics: The GOP has minimal incentive to change its ways after its slide into TrumpismThu Apr 29 2021 - 16:05
Corporate America will soon forget it found a conscienceUS Politics: both sides are suited by the alleged rift between the GOP and big businessWed Apr 21 2021 - 16:56
Struggle between US and China not like the cold warUS Politics: An indefinite state of martial vigilance is more than unruly US can now bearTue Apr 13 2021 - 20:27
Biden’s political masterclass offers lessons for progressives worldwideUS Politics: The left’s ideas are best served by those who appear to believe in them the leastTue Apr 06 2021 - 20:37
The US must be pragmatic when picking its alliesUS Politics: Building an alliance that can stand up to China involves hard choicesWed Mar 31 2021 - 12:55
Turning down the volume: the radical quietness of Joe BidenUS Politics: President’s bold stratagem of unavailability has created a precious, calmer atmosphereTue Mar 23 2021 - 15:38
US progressives need more than Biden’s relief planUS Politics: Test is whether Americans will accept higher taxes to make policies sustainable in the long termWed Mar 17 2021 - 15:01
America is not responsible for the decline in democracyUS Politics: Many blame Trump but there is nothing strange, or even new, about unfreedomTue Mar 09 2021 - 15:38
American aversion to big government is a thing of the pastUS Politics: Tolerance of fiscal intervention now appears to be more or less open-endedWed Mar 03 2021 - 01:00
Joe Biden’s immigration plan could nudge world into opennessUS Politics: Sweeping plan can revive global migration at a hinge moment in historyTue Feb 23 2021 - 17:16
America’s best hope for internal healing is enmity with ChinaUS Letter: Common purpose against a giant ‘other’ is what US has lacked for too longWed Feb 17 2021 - 03:00
Mitt Romney points way out of mess for US conservatismUS Politics: Denouncing Trump is brave but it is also the howlingly obvious way forwardTue Feb 09 2021 - 18:16
