Joe Biden is dodging the culture war to focus on class – and he’s rightUS Politics: Democratic candidate knows that voters prioritise the economy and healthcare over all elseWed Sep 30 2020 - 15:31
Lack of enthusiasm for Joe Biden is a positive turn for AmericaUS Politics: After messianic Trump and Obama eras the US could do with less emotionThu Sep 17 2020 - 12:09
Donald Trump succeeds in dragging Biden to the wrong fightUS Politics: With focus on law-and-order subtleties, Biden cannot focus on the Covid disasterThu Sep 3 2020 - 13:40
Kamala Harris’s policy vagueness could yet be a drawbackPeculiarly blank canvas of Joe Biden’s running mate may be opportunity for TrumpThu Aug 13 2020 - 17:34
Donald Trump’s problem is that he is not authoritarian enoughUS Politics: It is the president’s lack of grip, rather than an iron fist, that has sunk his chancesThu Aug 6 2020 - 13:37
How Donald Trump acts as a restraining influence on Mike PompeoUS Politics: President’s materialism is in contrast to moral imperatives of his secretary of stateThu Jul 30 2020 - 12:28
Americans should not count on a quiet life under Joe BidenUS Politics: Democratic candidate could be the most radical US president in decadesThu Jul 23 2020 - 11:26
US is sliding into conflict with China with eerily little debateUS Politics: Absence of dissenting voices on issue of momentous importance is unnervingThu Jul 16 2020 - 10:50
Donald Trump is an amateur populist – the real trouble is yet to comeUS Politics: Ineffectual president will likely be succeeded by more diligent anti-liberalsThu Jul 9 2020 - 11:06
World, look away now – these are dark days for the United StatesUS Politics: America is like an actor no longer in his prime but still hounded by paparazziThu Jul 2 2020 - 05:00
How American conservatives lost the culture warUS Politics: Recent statue-felling is an outward expression of decades of social changeThu Jun 25 2020 - 01:00
Don’t expect Biden to revive the Atlantic allianceUS Politics: Nato’s charter claims of ‘common heritage’ reads quainter by the yearThu Jun 18 2020 - 15:49
US protests have complicated Joe Biden’s path to the presidencyUS Politics: Safety-first campaign no longer adequate for Democrats’ election candidateThu Jun 11 2020 - 06:01
A US nakedly at odds with itself is in no position to take on ChinaUS Politics: Sowing disunity at home is a bad tactic for a president seeking a winnable showdown abroadThu Jun 4 2020 - 01:00
Donald Trump has one last chance to ensure his re-electionUS Politics: President has a path back to the White House and just enough time to actThu May 28 2020 - 10:38
China has much to lose from a Joe Biden presidencyUS Politics: If there is to be another cold war, it should be fought with the subtlety of the firstThu May 21 2020 - 10:44
Coronavirus shows society in better shape than we thoughtUS Politics: It is natural to anticipate better days, but there is good news already behind usThu May 14 2020 - 09:50
Bonhomie but no brotherhood: The authoritarian bloc that never wasWhile their domestic autocracy is real, as a group – including Trump, Bolsonaro, Modi and others – their coherence is overstatedWed Apr 22 2020 - 17:35
Unprepossessing Joe Biden has a great chance to make his mark on historyJanan Ganesh: Little was expected from US president Harry Truman but he proved a surpriseThu Apr 16 2020 - 01:00
US Democrats beware: vindication doesn’t ensure victoryAtmosphere is ripe for party of big government to sweep elections – but that’s nothing newThu Apr 9 2020 - 10:27
Coronavirus exposing true state of global affairs in 21st centuryUS Politics: No single country or bloc is strong enough to lead the world to a solutionThu Apr 2 2020 - 14:00
Trump is gambling with coronavirus – and so far he’s winningUS Politics: President’s ratings at all-time high in spite of inept response to Covid-19Thu Mar 26 2020 - 10:57
Bernie Sanders will never be US president, but his ideas have won the dayUS Politics: Coronavirus crisis has been the making of Democratic contender’s worldviewWed Mar 18 2020 - 16:33
No man is an island? Think againCoronavirus: working from home is the future, get used to itFri Mar 13 2020 - 16:21
Biden’s surge shows American political centre is still robustUS Politics: Super Tuesday shows that the non-radical vote remains awesome in sizeWed Mar 4 2020 - 15:01
Even left-wing Democrats baulk at Europe’s idea of social democracyUS Politics: Sanders and Warren want nothing more radical than taxing the 1%Wed Feb 26 2020 - 17:00
How a Democrat might widen the US-China feudUS Politics: Trump could be better than high-minded idealists at containing BeijingWed Feb 19 2020 - 16:59
Sanders could beat Trump – but is he worth the risk for Democrats?US Politics: Parallels between capable socialist senator and Jeremy Corbyn do not ring trueWed Feb 12 2020 - 18:00
Fragmented Democrat moderates inch towards deathUS politics: Range of presidential hopefuls is sign of party weakness – not strengthWed Feb 5 2020 - 20:30
How Republicans came to deify the presidencyUS Politics: Trump’s acquittal will reflect deference towards the office as well as partisanshipWed Jan 29 2020 - 15:33
America is still waiting for a true populistUS Politics: Voters crave universal healthcare, taxing the rich and tighter bordersThu Jan 23 2020 - 18:50
Joe Biden represents a welcome portal to the past for US alliesUS Politics: The most ‘European’ Democratic candidates are the least helpful to its interestsWed Jan 15 2020 - 20:00
Chest-beating quality of America First makes conflict inevitableUS Politics: American jingoism longs both for the quiet life and to answer provocationsWed Jan 8 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 2 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 4 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 6 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 9 2019 - 17:00
To save themselves, Republicans might yet desert TrumpJanan Ganesh: Party’s loyalty cannot be counted on as impeachment calculations changeWed Oct 2 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 5 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