Chest-beating quality of America First makes conflict inevitableUS Politics: American jingoism longs both for the quiet life and to answer provocationsWed Jan 08 2020 - 14:25
Do not underestimate Donald Trump’s re-election chancesUS Politics: In a country with no hopes to dash, the president cannot disappoint peopleThu Jan 02 2020 - 12:02
Partisanship sates a deep lust for belonging in AmericaUS Politics: With Trump, what matters is his aggression on behalf of the Republican tribeFri Dec 27 2019 - 15:30
Buttigieg and Biden show the US political centre still holdsUS Politics: Left’s takeover of Democratic party is slower and patchier than anticipatedWed Dec 04 2019 - 16:30
Republican Party’s right should learn to love the deep stateUS Politics: Trump’s malign neglect of institutions does not bode will for long-term battle with ChinaThu Nov 28 2019 - 06:00
Nation state notion weakened by tribal political identityUS Politics: Passports failing to supersede parties as conflicts of day are intra-nationalThu Nov 21 2019 - 01:00
Democratic hopefuls being held to an impossible standardUS politics: Democrats have a serviceable array of candidates but not a person of elemental magnetismWed Nov 13 2019 - 18:37
America has never recovered from its cold war victoryUS Politics: The fall of the Berlin Wall left US citizens free to argue amongst themselvesWed Nov 06 2019 - 16:14
Sanders and Warren expose false choice between diversity and welfareUS Politics: The American left’s heroes used to lace reforms with a measure of nativismThu Oct 31 2019 - 13:48
Seeing the worst in politicians has brought out the worst in politicsUS Politics: By clinging to the mass delusion that ‘they’re all crooks’, we have made it trueWed Oct 23 2019 - 17:55
Donald Trump is reminding the West why it liked US leadershipUS Politics: Those with historic qualms about US power are having a chastening educationWed Oct 16 2019 - 13:23
Populists and greens are a political alliance in waitingUS Politics: Mistrust of capitalism is a clear bond between populist and environmentalistWed Oct 09 2019 - 17:00
To save themselves, Republicans might yet desert TrumpJanan Ganesh: Party’s loyalty cannot be counted on as impeachment calculations changeWed Oct 02 2019 - 16:00
Janan Ganesh: Democrats have stopped overthinking impeachmentUS Politics: This could be the last glory of Pelosi’s career or it could doom her party in 2020Wed Sept 25 2019 - 17:59
Trump perpetuates impossible promise of US Middle East withdrawalUS Politics: US accumulated foreign interests in 20th century that cannot be divested fastWed Sept 18 2019 - 18:25
Janan Ganesh: Notion of a unified world populism is a mythUS Politics: There are lots of populisms. To speak of them in the terrifying singular is alarmistThu Sept 12 2019 - 13:23
Trump’s conservative foes display a poor knowledge of historyUS Politics: There is no future for a GOP that fails to address public qualms about capitalismThu Sept 05 2019 - 13:08
Donald Trump is less a strategist than a player of whack-a-moleUS Politics: A subtler leader would not seek confrontation with China and Europe at the same timeWed Aug 28 2019 - 16:13
Who will benefit from recession in US – the left or right?US Politics: Through tariffs imposed, Trump will have played role in looming downturnWed Aug 21 2019 - 20:00
Democrats need to put their minds to the China questionUS Politics: Parochialism of party’s primary race so far gives advantage to TrumpWed Aug 14 2019 - 16:00
America should not give in to the pessimism of white nationalismUS Politics: What it means to be white is liable to change but it need not cause unrestWed Aug 07 2019 - 17:18
Good reasons why Donald Trump is not a shoo-in for 2020US Politics: The president is on a roll, but he has done little to woo swing votersThu Aug 01 2019 - 13:23
Inept and dysfunctional? Trump is more effective than most of us hopedUS Politics: Kim Darroch was stating the obvious about US president – but was he right?Wed Jul 10 2019 - 20:00
Janan Ganesh: The US is a more liberal place due to TrumpAttitudes towards free trade, immigration have almost completely flipped in 25 yearsThu Jul 04 2019 - 01:00
Joe Biden’s nostalgia for a bipartisan era is misplacedUS Politics: The job of politics is to contain differences, not to pretend they don’t existWed Jun 26 2019 - 20:00
Democrats still cling to idea of US as a redemptive force in the worldUS Politics: Trump would savage a humbler foreign policy but Democrats should stand firmThu Jun 20 2019 - 01:00
Will there be a new cold war? Only if the US public want oneLeaders must show that China, which poses no conventional threat, has to be counteredThu Jun 13 2019 - 01:00
Janan Ganesh: The big Chinese elephant in the UK-US honeymoon suiteUS Politics: The British right cannot court Trump while keeping China as a mistressThu Jun 06 2019 - 01:00
Why Elizabeth Warren should still be considered a frontrunnerUS Politics: Senator may shine as flashier candidates for the Democratic nod burn outThu May 30 2019 - 01:00
America and Europe are more similar than they thinkJanan Ganesh: Gun ownership and showy patriotism are points of difference, but what else?Thu May 23 2019 - 01:00
Donald Trump needs more team-mates in the White HouseUS Politics: President should look to find like-minded players to join his teamThu May 16 2019 - 01:00
America’s young have little interest in the worldUS Politics: It is not the pacifism or realpolitik that is striking, but the indifferenceThu May 09 2019 - 01:00
Joe Biden is a good bet for 2020, and Trump knows itWeary Americans could well see the insider as a perfect escape from four years of dramaThu May 02 2019 - 01:00
US voters’ capacity for being appalled by Trump is waningA relaxation of civic mores is a deadlier threat to democracy than the presidentThu Apr 25 2019 - 01:00
For Trump to succeed, he must fail on immigrationPopulists do not live and die on their record – they live on a sense of rolling crisisThu Apr 18 2019 - 01:00
Donald Trump’s trade obsession keeps the peace with ChinaUS Politics: Emboldened future presidents might be drawn to more wide-ranging confrontationsThu Apr 11 2019 - 12:08
Donald Trump’s attack on Obamacare the surest way to election defeatUS Politics: Gravest threat to president is his gradual turn away from economic populismThu Apr 04 2019 - 01:00
Why all US capitalists should vote Democrat in 2020US Politics: Americans must embrace ‘socialism’ to ensure survival of capitalismThu Mar 14 2019 - 01:00
Don’t blame fake news for the rise of populismUS Politics: The media only ever lands a glancing blow on the course of historyThu Mar 07 2019 - 01:00
Much rests on the Democrats as they face an immigration dilemmaUS Politics: Can a party fluent in the argot of identity politics build a stronger welfare state?Thu Feb 28 2019 - 01:00
Trump is copying Obama when it comes to his Asia policyJanan Ganesh: A pivot by the US towards Asian nations has long been in the worksThu Feb 21 2019 - 01:00
When it comes to 2020, don’t count out the moderate DemocratsUS Politics: Candidates pile into the race as itch to defeat Trump takes holdThu Feb 14 2019 - 01:01
US consensus on troop withdrawal dangerously interventionistUS Politics: Opposition to Trump’s plan to exit Afghanistan smacks of ‘horror of retreat’Thu Feb 07 2019 - 04:00
Trump’s shutdown forfeit exposes weakness of populismPopulists declare themselves game for the fight, but their tolerance for suffering is unclearThu Jan 31 2019 - 01:00
Absence of an international rival a disaster for the USUS Politics: Having a common enemy could heal US partisan divideThu Jan 24 2019 - 01:00
Why it is time for the US to embrace the class struggleUS politics: This faultline feels less fraught than rifts over race, gender and sexualityThu Jan 17 2019 - 01:00
Trump’s unbuilt wall distracts focus from his effectiveness elsewhereUS Politics: Washington is united in accepting US links with China have improvedThu Jan 10 2019 - 01:00
Rumours of death of Trump’s presidency an exaggerated hopeDemocrats too quickly saw the leakage of allies as the beginning of the end for the US leaderThu Jan 03 2019 - 17:30
Trauma of Trump presidency has focused Democratic mindsUS Politics: Donald Trump has forced the Democrats to stand up for American powerThu Dec 27 2018 - 15:10
The US constitution has been quietly effective in curbing Donald TrumpUS Politics: US president fulminates about ‘Obama judges’ but has not defied rulingsThu Dec 13 2018 - 17:38
