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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.

    Email Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)

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    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
      US politics & policy
      Joe Biden’s year of living dangerously

      A rematch with Trump in 2024 would risk putting the US democratic system itself in the balance

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    • Friday, 10 November, 2023
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      The dumb censure of Rashida Tlaib Premium content

      The House of Representatives tool is an empty rebuke devalued by misuse

      Rashida Tlaib speaks during a demonstration calling for a ceasefire in Gaza
    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      Choose your own recovery Premium content

      Good economic news in the US reflects that the kind of recovery we have is a choice

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    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      The Israel funding charade on Capitol Hill Premium content

      In his first significant act as speaker, Mike Johnson has stepped right through Lewis Carroll’s looking glass

    • Wednesday, 1 November, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Netanyahu is an albatross around Biden’s neck

      Israel’s prime minister stands in the way of the two-state solution that is the US president’s goal

      Benjamin Netanyahu and Joe Biden embrace
    • Friday, 27 October, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      Triumph of the GOP end-of-days caucus Premium content

      Mike Johnson is more than a match for his most shameless controversy-seeking colleagues

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    • Wednesday, 25 October, 2023
      US-China relations
      Biden’s unsung shift on China

      The upside to dialogue between Washington and Beijing should never be overlooked

      Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Joe Biden and Xi Jingping having a telephone conversation in  a cartoon strip style
    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      The agonised American Jewish debate Premium content

      I am increasingly convinced there will be a long-term impact on the American left

      An Israeli flag flutters opposite a billboard welcoming US President Joe Biden who visited  Tel Aviv this week
    • Wednesday, 18 October, 2023
      US politics & policy
      The kamikazes on America’s Capitol Hill

      The Republican party has revealed its preference for misgovernance

      Illustration of the Republican party elephant ride a wrecking ball which is swinging towards the Capital building
    • Friday, 13 October, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      Poland’s fateful election Premium content

      It is easy to overlook what is at stake

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    • Wednesday, 11 October, 2023
      Israel-Hamas war
      Biden, Netanyahu and America’s choice

      The temptation is to offer Israel’s leader unconditional support but it would be wiser to try to break the cycle of violence

      Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu in New York last month
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
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      Biden’s Mexican border nightmare Premium content

      Even the US president’s allies are putting him under pressure to do something

    • Friday, 6 October, 2023
      The Big Read
      The ungovernable Republicans: ‘Their goal is chaos’

      House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s defenestration is the latest example of America’s conservative movement eating its own

    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      US foreign policy
      The return of American isolationism

      Ousting of Kevin McCarthy as Republican speaker is bad news for Ukraine

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    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Instant InsightUS presidential election 2024
      A Republican debate that will change nothing

      Donald Trump’s rivals needed to make him less relevant or take him down but they did neither

      Former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador Nikki Haley, right, receives a touch-up as, from left, former New Jersey governor Chris Christie, former US vice-president Mike Pence, Florida governor Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy speak during a break in the first Republican presidential primary debate at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on Wednesday
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
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      The Russia investigator on exposing assassinations and Putin’s plots, looking over his shoulder — and using a cat to find a secret agent

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    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      The ticking clock for America’s legacy admissions Premium content

      At some point, the system has to collapse under the weight of its self-parody

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    • Wednesday, 26 July, 2023
      US economy
      America’s feel-bad Biden boom

      The US president must find ways of spreading benefits of economic growth to society as a whole

      Joe Biden has overseen a growing economy, yet a big gap remains between the macroeconomic picture in the US and how Americans are feeling
    • Monday, 24 July, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      Ukraine’s frustrating summer Premium content

      We are at best in the middle stages of a war that is unlikely to reach a Hollywood-esque ending

      Ukrainian servicemen of the First Brigade of the National Guard of Ukraine fire an OTO-Melara Mod 56, an Italian-made 105 mm pack howitzer, towards Russian troops at a front line in the Donetsk region
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      Republican war on woke will wound the Pentagon

      Ukraine’s armed forces are outperforming those of Russia partly because they are more tolerant and motivated

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    • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
      Geopolitics
      China and the revenge of geopolitics

      History offers few lessons for the US and its allies in today’s big power play

      Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, left, shakes hands with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng during a meeting at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, China, Saturday, July 8, 2023.
    • Friday, 14 July, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      A lament for British silliness Premium content

      I think of the UK as one might a beloved relative who squanders their windfall on madcap schemes

    • Wednesday, 12 July, 2023
      US presidential election 2024
      The great Ron DeSantis campaign train wreck

      Case for the Florida governor as Republican nominee is based on a fatal misreading of what Trump voters want

      Ron DeSantis smiles and shakes hands with a supporter while surrounded by other supporters holding ‘DeSantis 2024’ placards
    • Friday, 7 July, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      The meaning of Bidenomics Premium content

      Whether Biden’s economic agenda will work politically is a big open question

      US President Joe Biden during an event at the Flex facility in West Columbia, South Carolina
    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      Ivy League
      The moral bankruptcy of Ivy League America

      Frenzy over affirmative action is a red herring as long as broader educational opportunity is so limited

      Black and Asian students carry a sign during a protest at Harvard university
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