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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, 23 September, 2022
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      Vladimir Putin is an increasingly desperate strongman, who is running out of time and options

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      This week’s soaring encomiums about the former prosecutor floored me

    • Wednesday, 14 September, 2022
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      The Republicans are trying hard to defeat themselves

      Trump-endorsed Senate candidates threaten to harm the party’s chances in the midterm elections

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      A rare monarch worth honouring and mourning Premium content

      Britain was a better country because of Queen Elizabeth

    • Thursday, 8 September, 2022
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      The enduring drivers of the country’s morbid trajectory — rising obesity, the opioid epidemic and Covid — are hard to confront

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
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      ‘Stalemate’ is far too generous to Putin Premium content

      We are almost certainly underestimating the vulnerability of Russia’s president

    • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
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      The battle to keep an American state

      Millions of voters buy the Republican lie that the authorities in Washington are dangerous and out to get them

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      Freedom of speech needs to be valued at all times as the author’s long career lays out

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      The truth that set Liz Cheney free

      Her lonely stance against Donald Trump was seen as treachery by today’s cult-like Republicans

    • Friday, 12 August, 2022
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      His goal would be to abolish the guardrails, which is a posh way of saying he will end the US republic

    • Wednesday, 10 August, 2022
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      The unexpected triumph of Joe Biden

      Recent legislative successes suggest a political system in good working order, but complacency is misplaced

    • Friday, 29 July, 2022
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      Putting the former president in the dock risks civil strife, but a failure to act would also carry dangers

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
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      Biden’s Lazarus-like opportunity

      It is conceivable that the US president could turn into the comeback geriatric

    • Wednesday, 27 July, 2022
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      The costs of miscalculation by either side would be lethal, and the risks are only growing

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      The age of honour and accountability is long dead

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      The growing militarisation of US society looks hard to stop

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      The west is failing to quarantine Russia Premium content

      The region is missing a big underlying reality in the global reaction to Putin’s barbarism

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      Washington consensus is that the former president will escape prosecution, but avoiding a case would impose a high toll

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      The former presidential candidate on negotiating with Putin, the ‘prophet’ Margaret Atwood — and why the Democrats need to rein in the radical left

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      The party is heading for a meltdown in the midterms but shows no taste for introspection

    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
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      Joe Biden’s endless dog days Premium content

      I cannot see where America’s tragically besieged democracy will catch its next break

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