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![]() Edward LuceFinancial Times |
Washington is ill-prepared for the speed with which the president has been ‘flooding the zone’
As Donald Trump tears up America’s rule book, the minority party can’t work out how to respond
The president revels in his unpredictability but over time he risks sowing distrust in America’s good faith
Very little stands in the way of the president’s goal of remaking America
Vibes speak volumes as new president lays out a radical agenda
Hubris kept him too long in the presidential race and he will be remembered chiefly for easing Trump’s return
The question of whether he is speaking for Trump is urgent for Europe
Elon Musk and other super-wealthy entrepreneurs stand to benefit from deregulation
The end of the US-led order is giving way to a kind of chaos that chimes with the president-elect’s preferences
In pardoning his son, the president has ensured that the distance between himself and Trump is now shrouded in fog
The danger posed by the president-elect lies most obviously at home not abroad
One irony of the president-elect’s campaign of destruction is that the government is in dire need of reform
The president-elect has promised vengeance against perceived enemies
His re-election is an existential disaster for Democrats and a historic game-changer for allies of the US
Harris is correct that the republic is in danger but that message may not suffice to prevent a Trump victory
Rather than turning to Harris, US billionaires are again backing the man they once condemned
In a country divided into mutually hostile camps, no easy resolution to the polarisation seems likely
Almost anything could tip the result in what is essentially a toss-up between Harris and Trump
His performance offers a clue to the future of the Republican party
The former president’s verbal decline and random meanderings are shrugged off as just more of the same
The US president’s prevarications over the Middle East and Ukraine threaten his legacy and Kamala Harris’s election prospects
A myth about migrants eating pets masks a calculated political bet
The Democratic nominee’s reluctance to do interviews will not help sell her to undecided voters
Her shift from indifferent vice-president to source of Obama-scale enthusiasm has caught almost everyone unawares
Silence is the wisest option for Kamala Harris on a divisive election issue that is harming the global image of the US
Tim Walz, the man who branded the Trump-Vance ticket ‘weird’, can help the Democrats prevail in swing states
Big tech libertarians see crypto as a way of blowing up the Fed
The second female Democrat to take on Trump has advantages that Hillary Clinton lacked
The Democrats must now decide between a coronation of the vice-president or a divisive contested convention
Democrats appear on the back foot as Trump’s party eyes control of Congress as well as the White House