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 2 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 8 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 4 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 7 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 9 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 2 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 6 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 6 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 9 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 3 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 9 2021 - 18:16
Janan Ganesh: Joe Biden’s success will be hard to emulate elsewhereUS Politics: The weakness of America’s welfare state gives Democrats a raison d’etreWed Feb 3 2021 - 15:53
Joe Biden can bring either unity or change – not bothUS Politics: There is no harmonious way to the kind of society Democrats wish to buildWed Jan 27 2021 - 13:13
Joe Biden’s presidency might be liberal democracy’s last chanceUS Politics: The West needs a success story for its own morale as much as its outward reputationWed Jan 20 2021 - 13:43
US Republicans are in for a vicious and open-ended struggleUS Politics: Republican moderates probably won’t prevail in battle for party’s soulWed Jan 13 2021 - 15:51
US on course for a less than revolutionary administrationReal winners from the age of divisive and partisan politics are those who hate it mostTue Jan 5 2021 - 17:16
Most global crises leave a lesson for the world, but not this pandemicPolitics: No governmental model has consistently outperformed its rivals against Covid-19Wed Dec 30 2020 - 14:41
This was a bad year for the US – but let’s focus on the positivesUS Politics: The events of 2020 showed the quiet resilience of the US systemWed Dec 23 2020 - 14:23
Glut of frustrated elites overlooked in West’s political turmoilUS Politics: An academic blames ‘elite overproduction’ for breeding resentment in societyWed Dec 2 2020 - 15:06
Joe Biden’s foreign policy must be underpinned by pragmatismUS Politics: Incoming president needs to avoid moral idealism that has cost the US dearlyWed Nov 25 2020 - 19:14
Democrats face disintegration without detested Trump as their glueUS Politics: Biden must hold fractious party together and work for disparate groupsTue Nov 17 2020 - 16:20
Joe Biden faces an impossible job to unify AmericaPresident-elect’s aim is almost childlike in its innocence in a deeply partisan nationThu Nov 12 2020 - 18:41
Liberals should worry about lack of US election landslideUS Politics: Deep dread as Trump stays resilient and electorally competitiveWed Nov 4 2020 - 20:24
Republicans need to remember that Donald Trump broke through for a reasonUS politics: If there is a future for the US right after Trump, it will have to resemble Ike’s benign statismWed Oct 21 2020 - 18:32
Freezing of US borders neutralises Trump’s anti-immigrant charmsUS politics: Still unclear what Trump wants to do with second term as election day loomsWed Oct 14 2020 - 18:50
Don’t be misled by his balcony moment – Donald Trump is no MussoliniUS Politics: The American president’s faults are more libertarian than authoritarianWed Oct 7 2020 - 15:57