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Edward Luce

US National Editor and Columnist

Edward Luce is the US national editor and columnist at the Financial Times. Before that he was the FT's Washington Bureau chief. Other roles have included South Asia bureau chief, Capital Markets editor, and Philippines Correspondent. Luce was previously the speechwriter for the US Treasury Secretary, Lawrence H. Summers, in the Clinton administration.

He is the author of three highly acclaimed books, The Retreat of Western Liberalism (2017), Time to Start Thinking: America in the Age of Descent (2012), and In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India (2007). He appears regularly on CNN, NPR, MSNBC’s Morning Joe, and the BBC.

He is also the author, along with colleague Rana Foroohar, of the Swamp Notes newsletter, which covers the intersection of money, power, and politics in America.

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  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    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

  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Always follow the money with Trump Premium content

    Postmodern fascism may well be in our future but a new oligarchy is taking shape beneath our noses

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  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    US politics & policy
    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

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  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Where Trump could surprise on the upside

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

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  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Will Musk and Trump fall out? Premium content

    The X owner may be flying too close to the sun

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  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Donald Trump
    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

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  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump’s climate fix: colonise Mars Premium content

    America believes it has made more than enough sacrifice on fossil fuels

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  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump and his mandate for retribution

    The president-elect has promised vengeance against perceived enemies

    President elect Donald Trump
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Time to close America’s bureau of wishful thinking Premium content

    Trump will not be stopped by legal niceties or moral outrage

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
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    What will Donald Trump's second term in office look like?

    A staff of loyalists will be a priority and vengeance will be high on the agenda

  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    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

    Supporters react as Fox News projects Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump is elected president during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    The Big Read
    What will happen the day after the US election?

    A historically tight presidential race might not be over on the night — and multiple crises could follow

    Montage with the Capitol building lit up at night surrounded by smaller images of a man holding a sign saying ‘Stop the steal’, a hand holding a sticker saying ‘I voted’ and the X logo
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    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

    Former US President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign event at Madison Square Garden
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Larry Fink is so wrong about 2024 Premium content

    Donald Trump has radically market-relevant plans in his sights

    BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    What Croesus wants from Trump

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

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  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    America must relearn diplomacy — the Eizenstat way Premium content

    The US is losing the art of serious statecraft

    Stuart Eizenstat, deputy secretary of state, meets reporters at the state department on June 2, 1998, to discuss a government report on Nazi gold in World War II
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    News in-depthUS politics & policy
    Has America lost its shame?

    The brazenness of US politicians in the face of scandals is a defining feature of the era

    Montage of Donald Trump, Eric Adams and Lauren Boebert with Capitol Hill in background
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    America’s dead-heat Trump-Harris election

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

    Republican presidential nominee, former US President Donald Trump, and Democratic presidential nominee, US Vice-President Kamala Harris, shake hands as they attend a presidential debate
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    America’s hurricane wreck of an election

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

    US Vice President Kamala Harris speaks after she surveyed the damage from Hurricane Helene
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    US campuses and the October 7 anniversary Premium content

    Students at the University of Michigan could make the difference on election day in a razor-close swing state

    Pro-Palestinian protesters
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    The Big Read
    How Netanyahu is ‘running rings’ around Biden

    The US president had hoped to disentangle from the Middle East. But the turbulence in the region could influence the election and define his legacy

    Benjamin Netanyahu, Joe Biden, Washington and ruined buildings
  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Instant InsightUS presidential election 2024
    Vance won the debate, but it probably will not matter

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

    JD Vance and Tim Walz are shown on a screen during the vice-presidential debate at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York on Tuesday
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    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

    Donald Trump visits Valdosta, Georgia
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    What we should learn from Jimmy Carter Premium content

    Lessons from the best ex-president as he approaches his centenary

  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
    US foreign policy
    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

    US President Joe Biden and Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris
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