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The FT’s Whitehall editor provides a fascinating travelogue in search of the north of England’s political shift to the right
Reflections from a senior US official with a working-class British background makes for a valuable and riveting historic read
Washington has always been careless of its allies in the pursuit of the US national interest
The Nobel Prize winner’s third novel takes aim at the country’s ‘deteriorating’ political and civil values, but he is heartened by young talent in the arts
The Enlightenment torchbearer is eloquent in his defence of clear thinking and uncharitable to what he deems irrational belief
Two books bring insights into the radical political ruptures wrought by the pandemic
Two books look at the effects of the attacks and argue they turned the US into a martial state in perpetual conflict
Two books take opposing views in the clash between feminists and those self-identifying their sex — but solid data remain elusive
Two books look at the rise of autocracy and inequality in the country
Willingness to engage overseas has waxed and waned over a century
PBS reporter Gayle Tzemach Lemmon explores the female-led battles of the Kurds in Syria
Three books examine Beijing’s increasingly strident diplomacy, the strategy behind it and what can be done to counter its tactics
Two commentators on the US political system offer detailed diagnoses on the troubled question of what it is to be a US citizen
This essay on the shaken state of western political systems argues that liberal ideals should remain steadfastly at their core
Gideon Rachman selects his best mid-year reads
The former PM’s call for international co-operation is laudable but overlooks nations’ scope for acting more decisively alone
Economist Brigitte Granville outlines the country’s dysfunction and seeks to scrap the single currency
The diaries of the EU’s chief negotiator may lack punchlines — but they offer a blow-by-blow account of four years of wrangling
The Arab uprising fuelled hopes of sweeping change. Three books explore why that did not happen as expected.
Boris Starling scours the ONS in order to retell the story of the nation in data
Our pick of the best books written by current and former FT writers
Pilita Clark selects her must-read titles
Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles
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The US should neither run the world, nor run from it, says a former Obama adviser
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