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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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  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
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  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Instant InsightUS presidential election 2024
    Vance won the debate, but it probably will not matter

    His performance offers a clue to the future of the Republican party

    JD Vance and Tim Walz are shown on a screen during the vice-presidential debate at the CBS Broadcast Center in New York on Tuesday
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    US presidential election 2024
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    The former president’s verbal decline and random meanderings are shrugged off as just more of the same

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  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
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    What we should learn from Jimmy Carter Premium content

    Lessons from the best ex-president as he approaches his centenary

  • Tuesday, 24 September, 2024
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    Joe Biden is missing in action

    The US president’s prevarications over the Middle East and Ukraine threaten his legacy and Kamala Harris’s election prospects

    US President Joe Biden and Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
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  • Friday, 20 September, 2024
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    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
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    Trump, Vance and American blood and soil

    A myth about migrants eating pets masks a calculated political bet

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  • Friday, 13 September, 2024
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    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

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  • Wednesday, 11 September, 2024
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    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

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  • Friday, 30 August, 2024
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    The astonishing metamorphosis of Kamala Harris

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

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  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
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    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
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    How the vice-president presents herself to the American public this week will determine the remainder of the campaign

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  • Sunday, 18 August, 2024
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    Pennsylvania is slipping from Trump’s grasp

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

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  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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?

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  • Friday, 26 July, 2024
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  • Wednesday, 24 July, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
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  • Sunday, 21 July, 2024
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    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
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