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Janan Ganesh: The occupant of the White House has done more in one term than such silver-tongues as Bill Clinton managed in two
Janan Ganesh: It is voters, not politicians, who set the bounds of what is possible
One man is on course to become UK prime minister at the first attempt. The second is struggling to keep an unpopular Donald Trump from the White House
Janan Ganesh: The free world has shrunk — but from heights that were unimaginable when I was born
Other western leaders need some of the French president’s bullheadedness
The US version is more of a personality cult - and one day Donald Trump will be gone
There is something of the Versailles court about the US Democratic elite
Make fun of the UK’s unbuilt train lines, despair of its featherweight politicians, but it is doing better than the continent at fighting extremists
His big government activism wasn’t demanded and lets Republicans frame him for inflation
Janan Ganesh: Britain has turned against radical politics faster than other rich nations because it has lost more from it
Liberals fret too much about dictatorship and not enough about chaos
Janan Ganesh: Indifference to a coup of potentially world importance reveals a parochial intelligentsia
Both men seem house-trained compared to recent leaders of their parties - and they could yet benefit at the polls
Harry Truman, travestied in the film, built the world we live in, and stand to lose
Populism is going to leave the ‘deep state’ more powerful, not less