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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, 3 April, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Abortion could be Trump’s Waterloo

    Democrats need to press home their advantage on an issue that seems a sure vote-loser for Republicans in November

    Pro-abortion protesters hold up signs
  • Friday, 29 March, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Is global terror making a comeback? Premium content

    Afghanistan’s reversion to its role as the host and incubator of cross-border Islamist terror was entirely foreseeable

    A woman places a drawing at a makeshift memorial in front of the  Crocus City Hall concert venue
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    Robert Kennedy Jr’s perilous voyage of discovery

    His third-party candidacy could split the vote and hand the election to Trump

    Nicole Shanahan waves to the crowd as Robert F Kennedy Jr gestures at her with both arms
  • Monday, 25 March, 2024
    ReviewHistory books
    Age of Revolutions — a sweeping survey of democracy under attack

    Fareed Zakaria’s ambitious history diagnoses many modern ills — but avoids simplistic remedies to populism

    War ships, fire and smoke coming from their cannons, on a sea with a small harbour in the distance
  • Friday, 22 March, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    The loneliness of Mike Pence Premium content

    When a former vice-president spurns his former president, we ought to sit up and notice

    Mike Pence
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Why no one will lend to Trump

    The Republican candidate’s financial difficulties pose risks for America as well as for himself

    A man in a suit and red baseball caps stands on a red carpet on a podium facing a large crowd
  • Friday, 15 March, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Washington DC’s red herring on TikTok’s ‘digital fentanyl’ Premium content

    A serious bill would restrict the sale of data collected by any social media app, regardless of who owns it

    A montage of the US flag and the TikTok logo
  • Wednesday, 13 March, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Democracy dies in Trumpian boredom

    The candidate’s unchecked flow of untruths and bizarre outbursts spell danger but no longer cause sufficient shock

    Close up of Donald trump standing at  a podium and pointing with US flags hanging behind him
  • Saturday, 9 March, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast13 min listen
    Swamp Notes: Did Biden's State of the Union hit the mark?

    Joe Biden’s re-election campaign kicked off on Capitol Hill. He brought the energy.

  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Joe Biden’s dreams of Benny Gantz Premium content

    Praying that the Israeli cabinet minister will replace Benjamin Netanyahu is now the US president’s unofficial policy

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  • Friday, 8 March, 2024
    Instant InsightJoe Biden
    Biden just kicked off his re-election campaign

    President’s feisty display ought to end speculation that he might still consider stepping down

    President Joe Biden departs after delivering the annual State of the Union address
  • Wednesday, 6 March, 2024
    US politics & policy
    The tyranny of America’s Supreme Court

    Conservative majority delivers rulings that assist Trump and play politics with the constitution

    Special counsel Jack Smith
  • Friday, 1 March, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Let’s not overdo the McConnell farewell Premium content

    The Kentucky lawmaker has undermined the Senate as an institution

    Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Ky., walks to the Senate to speak on the Senate floor,
  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    US politics & policy
    America’s booming year from hell

    Economic growth is failing to heal a nation torn over identity disputes instead of addressing its long-term challenges

    A view of the US Capitol Building, photographed using a motion blur technique
  • Sunday, 25 February, 2024
    Instant InsightUS presidential election 2024
    Why is Nikki Haley still running?

    Former South Carolina governor boosts her brand by standing alone against Donald Trump in the Republican party

    Nikki Haley
  • Friday, 23 February, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    Democrats are too scared of a contested convention Premium content

    The odds that this coming August we will have the first Democratic contested convention since 1968 are non-trivial

    U.S. President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden walk across the South Lawn of the White House
  • Wednesday, 21 February, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Trump’s campaign is bankruptcy protection

    American voters are the only force capable of stopping the Republican frontrunner from cashing in on the presidency

    Donald Trump leaves a Fox News event in Greenville, South Carolina, this week
  • Friday, 16 February, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    It’s not just Trump vs Biden, stupid Premium content

    It is virtually a given that there will be at least one, and probably several, other names on the ballot

    Robert F Kennedy Jr
  • Wednesday, 14 February, 2024
    US politics & policy
    The grip of America’s geriatrics

    Joe Biden is no frail outlier but the gerontocratic norm

    Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell, the Senate majority and minority leaders, walk behind vice-president Kamala Harris
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    Joe Biden
    Democrats need to face the unavoidable truth about Biden

    Most voters, including supporters of his own party, see the president as too old to run again

    US President Joe Biden holds a press conference at the White House on February 8. His legal counsel’s version of a drive-by shooting instantly turned that day into the worst day of his presidency
  • Friday, 9 February, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    The risks of US-China decoupling Premium content

    High-end semiconductors is an area where US companies remain dominant, but the evidence is pointing towards Chinese acceleration

    A man talks on a Huawei mobile phone as he and others line up outside a Huawei store
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
    US politics & policy
    America’s ‘do-harm’ Congress

    Republicans are blocking policies they insisted on because Donald Trump wants chaos

    Harry S Truman
  • Saturday, 3 February, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    Swamp Notes: How money is shaping the 2024 US election

    Deep-pocketed donors are having some trouble deciding whether to back Trump

  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    FT Swamp Notes
    A Swiftian take on America’s cultural right Premium content

    ‘Swift-a-Lago’ offers a window into a tortured psychology — the mental space of the cultural right

    Taylor Swift wearing a Kansas City Chiefs jacket with the playing number of Travis Kelce
  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
    US presidential election 2024
    A Biden win would be no miracle cure

    It remains to be seen what it would take to defeat Trumpism for good

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