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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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  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    FT Books Essay
    Did the 1990s break America’s faith in democracy?

    Three new books on the US look at the Clinton decade, the rise of conspiracies and the existential threat of November’s presidential election

    Fans of a political speaker gather at a convention to hear him talk
  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    The Middle East threat to Kamala Harris Premium content

    Should Israel and Hizbollah get into a full-blown war, the turmoil could rapidly change the US political weather

  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Trump, Vance and American blood and soil

    A myth about migrants eating pets masks a calculated political bet

    Donald Trump and JD Vance
  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    It’s still the economy, stupid, for Kamala Harris Premium content

    Economics is the part of the vice-president’s game that requires most work

    US vice-president and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris listens as former US president and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a presidential debate
  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
    Instant InsightUS presidential election 2024
    Kamala Harris has the measure of Donald Trump

    The vice-president won the debate and shut down lingering fears of her inadequacy for the fight ahead

    Donald Trump and Kamala Harris shake hands before the presidential debate hosted by ABC in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on September 10. Trump is wearing a dark suit and red tie, while Harris is wearing a dark suit with a white blouse.
  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    America’s character transplant since Swift Boat Premium content

    Trump pays no price for pouring frequent scorn on the very idea of serving one’s country

    Former US President Donald Trump lays a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery
  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Kamala Harris versus the media

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

    Kamala Harris speaks to reporters on the tarmac at an airport
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    On China, Harris is a blank slate Premium content

    How the vice-president would handle Beijing is of acute relevance to America’s voters and the world

  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The astonishing metamorphosis of Kamala Harris

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

    Kamala Harris
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    ‘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

    A police officer detains a person during a protest in support of Palestinians near the Israeli consulate
  • Monday, 19 August, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Chicago matters hugely for Kamala Harris Premium content

    How the vice-president presents herself to the American public this week will determine the remainder of the campaign

    Kamala Harris
  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Pennsylvania is slipping from Trump’s grasp

    Kamala Harris gains ground with crucial Hispanic voters in swing state that could decide 2024 US election

    Donald Trump dances as he departs after speaking at a rally in Schnecksville, Pennsylvania
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Elon Musk and the danger to democracy Premium content

    What, if anything, can democracies do to address the danger posed by online disinformation

    Elon Musk
  • Wednesday, 7 August, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    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

  • Friday, 2 August, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump is flailing Premium content

    The former president has been inept in responding to Kamala Harris’s rapid elevation

    Donald Trump speaks on a panel of the National Association of Black Journalists  convention in Chicago, Illinois
  • Wednesday, 31 July, 2024
    Bitcoin
    Trump and the politics of bitcoin

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

    A man in a suit speaks on stage with a Bitcoin 2024 banner in the background
  • Saturday, 27 July, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast15 min listen
    Swamp Notes: Should Kamala Harris embrace identity politics?

    Kamala Harris could make history as the first female US president. Why isn’t she talking about it?

  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Pete Buttigieg would be Kamala Harris’s smartest pick for vice-president Premium content

    JD Vance would not like to face the transportation secretary in a vice-presidential debate

    Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris
  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Harris vs Trump: America’s sudden gender election

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

    Vice-president Kamala Harris takes selfies with audience members
  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
    Instant InsightUS presidential election 2024
    Watershed decision puts Harris in uncharted territory

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

    Biden walks behind dark blue curtains on a stage
  • Friday, 19 July, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Why techies are going for Trump Premium content

    The addition of JD Vance to the ticket was Silicon Valley’s triumphal moment

    PayPal alumnus David Sacks speaks during the first day of the 2024 Republican National Convention
  • Thursday, 18 July, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast23 min listen
    Drama in the US presidential race

    Will there be more black swan events to disrupt the contest?

  • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    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

    Efi Chalikopoulou illustration of Joe Biden sitting backwards on a donkey while holding a stick that dangles a carrot over the animal’s backside.
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    With Vance, Trump is doubling down on Maga

    Ohio senator is an intelligent and forceful exponent of the Maga movement — and maybe also its future

    Delegates watch the screen showing Republican vice-presidential candidate JD Vance during the Republican National Convention on July 15 2024  in Milwaukee
  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    US politics & policy
    America is staring into the abyss

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

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