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Edward LuceFinancial Times |
Anyone who claims to know where this conflict will go is bluffing
A cabinet of sycophants makes an already erratic US president a greater threat
But America’s Democratic voters will be a much tougher sell for the California governor than foreigners
Trump and his supporters see the UK capital as the symbol of a Europe facing ‘civilisational erasure’
America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame
Easily discredited propaganda is undermining Trump’s assault on the constitution
No ideological code can fully capture Trump’s actions
There is no precedent of a dominant power abandoning its primacy, as Trump is doing
Emboldened by the Venezuelan operation, Trump is seeking a foreign balm for domestic pain
The US president has a growing appetite for military adventure
The US president has handed the initiative to Beijing in tech, energy and security
When historians assess this age of American populism, Silicon Valley’s plutocrats will surely be judged its winners
Conducting foreign policy, let alone war, by meme is dangerous and foolish
Nobody should be surprised that the US president has the BBC in his sights
The issue is Trump’s Achilles heel — and the US president knows it
One thing is for sure: the opening act of the US president’s second term is over
The anti-Jewish threat in America today comes largely from the right
Those who are bearish on US democracy should not extend their pessimism to the economy
Russia bets it can gain in US negotiations what it cannot win on the battlefield
Trump’s latest piece of brinkmanship is likely to result in another climbdown
Despite the president’s claims, the South American country is nowhere close to being the US’s biggest drug supplier
The philanthropist is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon
After the Kirk murder, Trump is pulverising the country’s founding principles with astonishing ease
Keir Starmer might be tempted to hymn ‘shared values’ but such talk rings increasingly hollow
The president’s genius is to keep pushing the Democrats into a reactive defence of the status quo
Ahead of Friday’s meeting, Putin knows that Trump is desperate for a deal on Ukraine
The US president is upending a quarter of a century of American policy in the Indo-Pacific
Lack of conviction and intolerance are character defects that augur badly for centrist and centre-left parties
The US president’s sympathy for disgraced strongman Bolsonaro is part of an alarming pattern
For years he insisted on a deep-state plot that only he could expose. Now he says there is nothing to show
The nation of immigrants’ shift to mass deportation is among the most shocking turns in US history
Many Republicans could lose their seats in Congress as a result of the president’s reverse Robin Hood budget
The US president hopes that his display of power in Iran will stop the war — but that is not his decision to make
A bitter fight is on between restrainers and neoconservatives
The right has no monopoly on violent fantasy, but liberals are far less likely to own guns
Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s clearest step yet towards authoritarianism
No one knows what the US president’s desired endgame with Beijing really is
Trump’s mercurial war on economic orthodoxy is making markets jittery
Some Republicans warn that a tax-cutting budget will destroy the party’s standing with working-class voters
Federal ethics rules now seem little more than decoration
The Tesla founder’s much-heralded war on government waste has had uncertain results
America’s 47th president plays unwitting ally to non-populists everywhere except at home
The many contradictions of the vice-president should not distract from his ambition
The president’s refusal to accept a Supreme Court ruling on illegal deportation is a turning point
There is no school of foreign policy realism or trade mercantilism that could explain the US president’s actions
On many fronts, and with deliberate haste, America is vaporising its soft power
Fear and muddled thinking are stopping Trump’s opponents from acting in defence of a democracy in peril
The cost for Donald Trump of keeping the world’s richest man by his side is growing
Having previously declared bitcoin to be a ‘scam’, the US president now wants to add it to the Fed’s balance sheet
With ruthless purges of the US government, the president is tipping the scales towards autocracy
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