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Edward Luce

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Trump’s imperial emporium

Washington is ill-prepared for the speed with which the president has been ‘flooding the zone’

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While Democrats sleep

As Donald Trump tears up America’s rule book, the minority party can’t work out how to respond

04.02.2025 6

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Trump and the Dr Strangelove experiment

The president revels in his unpredictability but over time he risks sowing distrust in America’s good faith

28.01.2025 10

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The field is now wide open to Trump

Very little stands in the way of the president’s goal of remaking America

21.01.2025 10

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Trump’s inaugural regime change

Vibes speak volumes as new president lays out a radical agenda

21.01.2025 10

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Joe Biden’s tragic curtain call

Hubris kept him too long in the presidential race and he will be remembered chiefly for easing Trump’s return

14.01.2025 40

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Musk’s war on America’s allies

The question of whether he is speaking for Trump is urgent for Europe

07.01.2025 6

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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 10

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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 4

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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 5

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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 10

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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 2

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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 3

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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 3

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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 4

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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 6

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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 9

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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 2

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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 20

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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 3

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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 50

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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 10

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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 40

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