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 7 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 1 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 4 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 6 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 9 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 2 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 4 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 7 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 7 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 3 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
Populism thrives as memory of war fades and ‘greatest’ generation passesUS Politics: George HW Bush had a taste for moderation based on bitter experience of historyThu Dec 6 2018 - 01:00
Trump has ditched pretence around American exceptionalismUS Politics: President has replaced rhetoric with US naked interest-driven statecraftThu Nov 29 2018 - 01:00
Nancy Pelosi’s House fight is a portent of battles to comeUS politics: With 2020 presidential race ahead, the speakership tussle is just a tasterThu Nov 22 2018 - 01:00
The era of estrangement between America and EuropePresidents come and go, as do their tiffs. Even Macron and Trump get along at timesThu Nov 15 2018 - 01:00
Trump has been normalised in many voters’ eyesUS politics: Defeat of president in 2020 will be about presenting him as elitistThu Nov 8 2018 - 01:00
America’s politics of absolutes fuels ideological violenceUS Politics: Pittsburgh synagogue attack shows necessity of moderating rhetoricThu Nov 1 2018 - 01:00
Donald Trump is a dealmaker – but not necessarily a good oneJanan Ganesh: US’s allies should note its president is negotiable on much, and at affordable costThu Oct 25 2018 - 01:00
Trump’s war on Obamacare has backfired on RepublicansUS Politics: President’s unforced error is helping Democrats in midterm electionsThu Oct 18 2018 - 01:00
Democrats should learn from Mitch McConnell – even as they abhor himUS Politics: Developing trend of Democratic Party suggests a certain innocenceThu Oct 11 2018 - 01:00
Triumph of American values has left US unsure of its own identityUS Politics: How does a nation define itself when what made it distinct has become commonplace?Thu Oct 4 2018 - 01:00
Trump has no good options but there is a way out of his supreme court problemThe US president’s interests and those of nominee Brett Kavanaugh are not alignedThu Sep 27 2018 - 01:00
America can no longer carry the world on its shouldersJanan Ganesh: Selfish logic of Trump’s America First doctrine will be aped by future presidentsThu Sep 20 2018 - 09:59
Trump era may mark the last gasp of the religious rightJanan Ganesh: Evangelicals face a bleaker future despite their bargain with presidentThu Sep 6 2018 - 01:00
Populism was not sparked by the financial crisisJanan Ganesh: The crash just brought to the surface what was already extant and pumpingThu Aug 30 2018 - 01:00
Janan Ganesh: Trump’s future will be settled by politics, not lawUS constitution requires two-thirds majority of Senate for president’s removalThu Aug 23 2018 - 01:00
US Democrats are rediscovering identity politicsJanan Ganesh: They needed to start distinguishing one kind of American from anotherThu Aug 16 2018 - 01:00
Isolationism is the wrong charge to throw at Donald TrumpUS Politics: The president still participates in the world – just not in the way his critics wantThu Aug 9 2018 - 01:00
After Trump, the GOP must accept a new kind of RepublicanismThe party can retrench or learn to helm, not dismantle, an interventionist stateThu Aug 2 2018 - 01:00