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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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  • Wednesday, 19 June, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The mother of all US presidential debates

    A set piece clash between Biden and Trump will turn less on policies than on each candidate’s manner and appearance

    Donald Trump and Joe Biden at the 2020 presidential debate in Nashville, Tennessee
  • Friday, 14 June, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    A day in the life of the US ambassador to China Premium content

    ‘We are locked into a battle of ideas with Beijing — our democratic values versus their authoritarian mindset,’ says Nicholas Burns

    US Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns
  • Wednesday, 12 June, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The appeal of an American Caesar

    A well-organised cabal of rightwing intellectuals is assembling an authoritarian playbook for Donald Trump

    Donald Trump at a campaign rally in Las Vegas this month
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    As goes India, so goes . . .? Premium content

    If there are any Indian auguries for America’s November 5 election, they might even be negative

  • Wednesday, 5 June, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    What Hunter Biden tells us about America

    Treating the rule of law as a partisan issue is the mark of a corroded political culture

    Hunter Biden leaving court with his wife Melissa Cohen Biden
  • Friday, 31 May, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Fourteen years of British self-harm Premium content

    It is not as if the likely incoming Labour government will be able to reverse the bulk of the damage wrought

    Rishi Sunak
  • Thursday, 30 May, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump’s guilty verdict puts America’s political system on trial

    The Republican candidate’s court of appeal will be the US electorate

    Donald Trump holds up a fist as he arrives back at Trump Tower after being convicted in his criminal trial in New York City on May 30 2024
  • Wednesday, 29 May, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    The Trump train is still on track

    Why is stopping the former president proving so difficult for Biden?

    Donald Trump stands at a podium outdoors surrounded by US flags and people holding up phones to photograph him
  • Sunday, 19 May, 2024
    ReviewHistory books
    To Run the World — Moscow’s quest for power and parity with the US

    Sergey Radchenko’s cold war history links Putin to Kremlin predecessors leading a Russia driven by empire, not ideology

    A colour photograph of two mid-aged men in suits on the sunny veranda of a seaside villa in the mid-1970s
  • Friday, 17 May, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump’s real plans for the deep state Premium content

    We ought to be paying more attention to the former president’s plan to reimpose Schedule F

    Republican congressman Matt Gaetz stands at Manhattan criminal court as former president Donald Trump speaks to members of the media next to his attorney Todd Blanche
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    America is pulling up the drawbridge

    The nation is growing tired of upholding the economic rules it laid out for the world after 1945

    Illustration of a map of North America with a castle wall, with US flags flying on the turrets, built all around the border of the United States
  • Saturday, 11 May, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen
    Swamp Notes: The Fed’s political pressures

    The US central bank promised to cut interest rates this year. Should Joe Biden be worried if they don’t?

  • Friday, 10 May, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump’s PT Barnum veepstakes Premium content

    His final pick will have to say they believe 2020 election was stolen, and refuse to admit that the former president could lose in November

    Donald Trump delivered remarks during his New Hampshire primary night rally, joined by Marjorie Taylor Greene, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Tim Scott
  • Wednesday, 8 May, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    For Putin, Gaza is an endless gift

    For Biden, Israel’s war on Hamas is a serious drain

    A smiling Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Joe Biden in Geneva in 2021
  • Saturday, 4 May, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Europe should brace itself for Trump

    Unlike in 2016, this time the former president has a coherent plan for governing

    Donald Trump
  • Friday, 3 May, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump’s dot plot for the Fed Premium content

    The former president nominated Jay Powell, and to him there are few things worse than having loyalty betrayed

  • Wednesday, 1 May, 2024
    US society
    Adults, not students, are America’s problem

    Campus protests are being routinely mishandled

    Two NYPD officers in riot gear carry off a student between them
  • Friday, 26 April, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    India’s Jekyll and Hyde journey Premium content

    Life is certainly harder for the Muslim and secular populations under Modi, but he has also overseen exceptional growth

    Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister during a campaign rally in Agra, Uttar Pradesh
  • Wednesday, 24 April, 2024
    Republican Party US
    While Donald Trump sleeps 

    The Ukraine aid vote in the House of Representatives exposed Republican divisions that will endure

    A Manhattan courtroom sketch of Donald Trump
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    US foreign policy
    Biden’s containment migraine

    The balancing act could get even trickier in the coming days

    Joe Biden with Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv last October, shortly after Hamas’s attack
  • Friday, 19 April, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Tyler Cowen: Why we will learn to love AI Premium content

    The American economist who once said the age of rapid innovation was over has a striking prognosis about AI

    The OpenAI logo is displayed on a cell phone with an image on a computer monitor generated by ChatGPT’s Dall-E text-to-image model
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
    US-China relations
    Biden’s polite Trumpism on China

    Communication matters precisely because the structural problem between the pair is probably insoluble

    Treasury secretary Janet Yellen with the US ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns, in Beijing last week
  • Friday, 12 April, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Could inflation sink Biden? Premium content

    US growth does not matter much to voters if interest rates remain elevated

  • Wednesday, 10 April, 2024
    US politics & policy
    America’s moment of truth on Ukraine

    Republicans have a stark choice: help Zelenskyy or pay fealty to Trump

    Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene speaks to reporters after a meeting with Mike Johnson, the House Speaker
  • Friday, 5 April, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Israel’s José Andrés problem Premium content

    Will the killing of seven World Central Kitchen workers prompt Biden to take action against Netanyahu’s government?

    Palestinians inspect a vehicle with the logo of the World Central Kitchen wrecked by an Israeli airstrike
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