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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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  • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
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    Swamp Notes: Greenland, USA

    Donald Trump wants new territory. He’s threatening to invade American allies to get it.

  • Friday, 10 January, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump, Greenland and the rebirth of the Monroe Doctrine Premium content

    History has a funny way of casting new light on events

    A Trump-branded aircraft arrives in Nuuk, Greenland on January 7
  • Thursday, 9 January, 2025
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    America bids farewell to Carter — and remembers an era before Trump

    Washington commemorates statesman with political virtues many fear are now in short supply

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  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
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    Musk’s war on America’s allies

    The question of whether he is speaking for Trump is urgent for Europe

    Clacton MP Nigel Farage (right), along with Reform UK’s Treasurer Nick Candy (left) meeting Elon Musk (centre)
  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
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    What the New Orleans attack portends for 2025 Premium content

    A large share of America is not just bowling alone; they are also radicalising alone

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  • Thursday, 19 December, 2024
    The Big Read
    FT Person of the Year: Donald Trump

    After the most dramatic comeback in modern US history, the president-elect promises a new era of sweeping deregulation and a profound shift to the cultural right

  • Tuesday, 17 December, 2024
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    Trump’s bonanza of the century

    Elon Musk and other super-wealthy entrepreneurs stand to benefit from deregulation

    Elon Musk speaks with US president-elect Donald Trump
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    US-Iran tensions
    Iran and the onset of a Trumpian world

    The end of the US-led order is giving way to a kind of chaos that chimes with the president-elect’s preferences

  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
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    Always follow the money with Trump Premium content

    Postmodern fascism may well be in our future but a new oligarchy is taking shape beneath our noses

    Donald Trump speaks during a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago estate
  • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Joe Biden’s selfish parting act

    In pardoning his son, the president has ensured that the distance between himself and Trump is now shrouded in fog

    Joe Biden and his son Hunter
  • Tuesday, 26 November, 2024
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    Where Trump could surprise on the upside

    The danger posed by the president-elect lies most obviously at home not abroad

    Donald Trump attends a Nato meeting during his first term as president
  • Friday, 22 November, 2024
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    Will Musk and Trump fall out? Premium content

    The X owner may be flying too close to the sun

    President-elect Donald Trump greets Elon Musk as he arrives to attend a viewing of the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket on November 19
  • Tuesday, 19 November, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump’s demolition of the US state

    One irony of the president-elect’s campaign of destruction is that the government is in dire need of reform

    Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr, Mike Johnson, and Robert F Kennedy Jr eating McDonalds on an airplane in a photo posted to X on November 17, 2024
  • Friday, 15 November, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump’s climate fix: colonise Mars Premium content

    America believes it has made more than enough sacrifice on fossil fuels

    SpaceX’s Starship rocket launches from Starbase during its second test flight in Boca Chica, Texas, on November 18, 2023. SpaceX on November 18, 2023, carried out the second test launch of Starship, the largest rocket ever built that Elon Musk hopes will one day colonize Mars
  • Tuesday, 12 November, 2024
    Donald Trump
    Trump and his mandate for retribution

    The president-elect has promised vengeance against perceived enemies

    President elect Donald Trump
  • Friday, 8 November, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Time to close America’s bureau of wishful thinking Premium content

    Trump will not be stopped by legal niceties or moral outrage

  • Thursday, 7 November, 2024
    Rachman Review podcast33 min listen
    What will Donald Trump's second term in office look like?

    A staff of loyalists will be a priority and vengeance will be high on the agenda

  • Wednesday, 6 November, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    America wants Trump — no ifs or buts

    His re-election is an existential disaster for Democrats and a historic game-changer for allies of the US

    Supporters react as Fox News projects Republican presidential nominee, former U.S. President Donald Trump is elected president during an election night event at the Palm Beach Convention Center
  • Friday, 1 November, 2024
    The Big Read
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    A historically tight presidential race might not be over on the night — and multiple crises could follow

    Montage with the Capitol building lit up at night surrounded by smaller images of a man holding a sign saying ‘Stop the steal’, a hand holding a sticker saying ‘I voted’ and the X logo
  • Tuesday, 29 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    America isn’t too worried about fascism

    Harris is correct that the republic is in danger but that message may not suffice to prevent a Trump victory

    Former US President Donald Trump arrives for a campaign event at Madison Square Garden
  • Friday, 25 October, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Larry Fink is so wrong about 2024 Premium content

    Donald Trump has radically market-relevant plans in his sights

    BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink
  • Tuesday, 22 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    What Croesus wants from Trump

    Rather than turning to Harris, US billionaires are again backing the man they once condemned

    Donald Trump speaks next to Steve Schwarzman
  • Friday, 18 October, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    America must relearn diplomacy — the Eizenstat way Premium content

    The US is losing the art of serious statecraft

    Stuart Eizenstat, deputy secretary of state, meets reporters at the state department on June 2, 1998, to discuss a government report on Nazi gold in World War II
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    News in-depthUS politics & policy
    Has America lost its shame?

    The brazenness of US politicians in the face of scandals is a defining feature of the era

    Montage of Donald Trump, Eric Adams and Lauren Boebert with Capitol Hill in background
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    America’s dead-heat Trump-Harris election

    In a country divided into mutually hostile camps, no easy resolution to the polarisation seems likely

    Republican presidential nominee, former US President Donald Trump, and Democratic presidential nominee, US Vice-President Kamala Harris, shake hands as they attend a presidential debate
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