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Edward Luce

Edward Luce

Financial Times

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Trump’s bonanza of the century

Elon Musk and other super-wealthy entrepreneurs stand to benefit from deregulation

17.12.2024 20

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Iran and the onset of a Trumpian world

The end of the US-led order is giving way to a kind of chaos that chimes with the president-elect’s preferences

10.12.2024 8

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Joe Biden’s selfish parting act

In pardoning his son, the president has ensured that the distance between himself and Trump is now shrouded in fog

03.12.2024 8

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Where Trump could surprise on the upside

The danger posed by the president-elect lies most obviously at home not abroad

26.11.2024 10

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Trump’s demolition of the US state

One irony of the president-elect’s campaign of destruction is that the government is in dire need of reform

19.11.2024 20

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Trump and his mandate for retribution

The president-elect has promised vengeance against perceived enemies

12.11.2024 10

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America wants Trump — no ifs or buts

His re-election is an existential disaster for Democrats and a historic game-changer for allies of the US

06.11.2024 70

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America isn’t too worried about fascism

Harris is correct that the republic is in danger but that message may not suffice to prevent a Trump victory

29.10.2024 30

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What Croesus wants from Trump

Rather than turning to Harris, US billionaires are again backing the man they once condemned

22.10.2024 20

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America’s dead heat Trump-Harris election

In a country divided into mutually hostile camps, no easy resolution to the polarisation seems likely

15.10.2024 8

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America’s hurricane wreck of an election

Almost anything could tip the result in what is essentially a toss-up between Harris and Trump

08.10.2024 6

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Vance won the debate, but it probably will not matter

His performance offers a clue to the future of the Republican party

02.10.2024 10

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Trump’s ageing is as real as Biden’s

The former president’s verbal decline and random meanderings are shrugged off as just more of the same

01.10.2024 10

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Joe Biden is missing in action

The US president’s prevarications over the Middle East and Ukraine threaten his legacy and Kamala Harris’s election prospects

24.09.2024 10

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Trump, Vance and American blood and soil

A myth about migrants eating pets masks a calculated political bet

18.09.2024 10

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Kamala Harris versus the media

The Democratic nominee’s reluctance to do interviews will not help sell her to undecided voters

28.08.2024 6

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The astonishing metamorphosis of Kamala Harris

Her shift from indifferent vice-president to source of Obama-scale enthusiasm has caught almost everyone unawares

23.08.2024 6

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‘Gaza’ is the word Democrats dare not whisper in Chicago

Silence is the wisest option for Kamala Harris on a divisive election issue that is harming the global image of the US

21.08.2024 30

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Kamala Harris’s happy blue-collar warrior

Tim Walz, the man who branded the Trump-Vance ticket ‘weird’, can help the Democrats prevail in swing states

07.08.2024 6

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Trump and the politics of bitcoin

Big tech libertarians see crypto as a way of blowing up the Fed

31.07.2024 60

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Harris vs Trump: America’s sudden gender election

The second female Democrat to take on Trump has advantages that Hillary Clinton lacked

24.07.2024 20

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Biden’s historic decision puts Kamala Harris in uncharted territory

The Democrats must now decide between a coronation of the vice-president or a divisive contested convention

22.07.2024 10

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Republicans are delighted with Biden

Democrats appear on the back foot as Trump’s party eyes control of Congress as well as the White House

17.07.2024 50

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America is staring into the abyss

After the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, an already existential election is now even more fraught

14.07.2024 100

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Biden’s unavoidable time bomb

An open Democratic convention to choose a new nominee risks being messy but could save the republic from Trump

04.07.2024 10

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The economic consequences of Mr Trump

Biden has not targeted the former president’s trade policy but it would be disastrous for the US

26.06.2024 40

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The mother of all US presidential debates

A set piece clash between Biden and Trump will turn less on policies than on each candidate’s manner and appearance

19.06.2024 20

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The appeal of an American Caesar

A well-organised cabal of rightwing intellectuals is assembling an authoritarian playbook for Donald Trump

12.06.2024 20

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What Hunter Biden tells us about America

Treating the rule of law as a partisan issue is the mark of a corroded political culture

05.06.2024 50

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Trump’s guilty verdict puts America’s political system on trial

The Republican candidate’s court of appeal will be the US electorate

31.05.2024 30

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The Trump train is still on track

Why is stopping the former president proving so difficult for Biden?

29.05.2024 20

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America is pulling up the drawbridge

The nation is growing tired of upholding the economic rules it laid out for the world after 1945

15.05.2024 40

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For Putin, Gaza is an endless gift

For Biden, Israel’s war on Hamas is a serious drain

08.05.2024 30

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Europe should brace itself for Trump

Unlike in 2016, this time the former president has a coherent plan for governing

04.05.2024 30

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Adults, not students, are America’s problem

Campus protests are being routinely mishandled

01.05.2024 50

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While Donald Trump sleeps 

The Ukraine aid vote in the House of Representatives exposed Republican divisions that will endure

24.04.2024 20

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Biden’s containment migraine

The balancing act could get even trickier in the coming days

19.04.2024 10

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Biden’s polite Trumpism on China

Communication matters precisely because the structural problem between the pair is probably insoluble

17.04.2024 20

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America’s moment of truth on Ukraine

Republicans have a stark choice: help Zelenskyy or pay fealty to Trump

10.04.2024 10

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Abortion could be Trump’s Waterloo

Democrats need to press home their advantage on an issue that seems a sure vote-loser for Republicans in November

03.04.2024 20

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Robert Kennedy Jr’s perilous voyage of discovery

His third-party candidacy could split the vote and hand the election to Trump

27.03.2024 5

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Why no one will lend to Trump

The Republican candidate’s financial difficulties pose risks for America as well as for himself

20.03.2024 10

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Democracy dies in Trumpian boredom

The candidate’s unchecked flow of untruths and bizarre outbursts spell danger but no longer cause sufficient shock

13.03.2024 40

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The tyranny of America’s Supreme Court

Conservative majority delivers rulings that assist Trump and play politics with the constitution

06.03.2024 30

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America’s booming year from hell

Economic growth is failing to heal a nation torn over identity disputes instead of addressing its long-term challenges

28.02.2024 30

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Trump’s campaign is bankruptcy protection

American voters are the only force capable of stopping the Republican frontrunner from cashing in on the presidency

21.02.2024 60

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The grip of America’s geriatrics

Joe Biden is no frail outlier but the gerontocratic norm

14.02.2024 20

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Democrats need to face the unavoidable truth about Biden

Most voters, including supporters of his own party, see the president as too old to run again

09.02.2024 9

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America’s ‘do-harm’ Congress

Republicans are blocking policies they insisted on because Donald Trump wants chaos

07.02.2024 40

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A Biden win would be no miracle cure

It remains to be seen what it would take to defeat Trumpism for good

31.01.2024 20

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