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Patti Waldmeir

North America Correspondent

Patti Waldmeir is the North America correspondent based in Chicago. She has been a correspondent for the FT since 1980, based in London, Washington, Johannesburg and Shanghai. Patti started her career covering the continent of Africa and went on to become US Editor of the Financial Times. She spent a decade as US legal columnist before moving to Shanghai to cover China for the FT for 8 years.

Patti graduated from the University of Michigan and was awarded a Marshall scholarship which allowed her to obtain an MA from the University of Cambridge in the UK.

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  • Tuesday, 11 June, 2024
    US race relations
    70 years after Brown, integrating US schools remains a challenge

    Desegregation made a difference — but not enough of one

    Nine-year-old African-American student Linda Brown (first desk in second row from right) sits with her classmates at the racially segregated Monroe Elementary School, Topeka, Kansas, in 1953
  • Tuesday, 28 May, 2024
    OutlookPollution
    Disasters like Ohio’s ‘burning river’ can spark clean-water revolutions

    A fire in 1969 caused by industrial pollution shocked the US to its environmental senses

    Images of a fire on the Cuyahoga River in 1952
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    OutlookSport
    Do the Chicago Bears really need a new stadium?

    Critics fear taxpayers will be on the hook for construction of infrastructure needed for football team’s proposal

    An artist’s impression of the Chicago Bears stadium project
  • Monday, 29 April, 2024
    OutlookUS presidential election 2024
    Swing states look to Latino voters — as turnout attempts get under way

    They’ll make up one in seven of those eligible to go to the polls for the presidential election

  • Monday, 15 April, 2024
    OutlookScience
    Cicada-geddon: a rare insect event draws fans to the Midwest

    Trillions of cicadas are set to emerge after years of sleep for a once in 221-year occasion

  • Monday, 1 April, 2024
    OutlookDisease control and prevention
    Syphilis: an age-old disease stalking modern America

    Widespread testing for this treatable if embarrassing condition is being hampered by lack of access to healthcare

    A 17th-centuryngraving of a physician preparing medicine to treat syphilis. A patient lying in bed drinks from a glass
  • Monday, 4 March, 2024
    OutlookUS presidential election 2024
    What voters think about Joe Biden and the age issue

    How much will perceptions of the capacities of the elderly president and his not-much-younger rival influence the outcome of elections?

    Smiling Joe Biden wearing aviator sunglasses and opennecked shirt with blazer
  • Monday, 19 February, 2024
    OutlookClimate change
    Sinking skyscrapers, new beaches: Chicago faces the climate crisis

    The city has reinvented itself before and may need to do so again

    A view from Montrose Harbor over Lake Michigan and the Chicago skyline
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    OutlookDonald Trump
    The Trump supporters stalked by doubt and conspiracy

    Former and current fans in the Midwest debate how many of his 2016 voters he needs to win a close presidential race

    A smiling man wearing the Auto Workers For Trump red T-shirt
  • Monday, 8 January, 2024
    OutlookChicago
    The migrants who are pawns in the politics of US immigration

    A Republican governor’s tactics are almost overwhelming some Democratic cities

    Migrants take shelter inside a Chicago station last year
  • Tuesday, 12 December, 2023
    OutlookUS society
    Baby-boomer romance scores big with ‘The Golden Bachelor’

    The latest version of the dating show attracts not only over 65s but younger viewers too

    Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist on ‘The Golden Bachelor’. The series showed the social security set having a roaring good time
  • Monday, 13 November, 2023
    OutlookOutlook
    Can the secrets of living to 100 translate to ordinary urban life?

    The Blue Zones project aims to change little things to make a big difference

    Giulia Pisanu, age 101
  • Monday, 30 October, 2023
    OutlookUS politics & policy
    Should citizens decide how to spend public money?

    Small towns in America have been using ‘participatory budgeting’ to let people shape local spending

    A woman sits behind a table with a ballot box on it and a sign saying ‘Vote here’
  • Thursday, 26 October, 2023
    HTSIHTSI autumn travel special
    On the trail of the Underground Railroad

    New tours along the network that helped to free 100,000 former slaves are educating Americans beyond the history class

    The Underground Railroad, 1893, by Charles Webber
  • Monday, 16 October, 2023
    OutlookEnvironment
    All the leaves are brown — is it climate change’s fault?

    Shifts in weather patterns are partly to blame for contributing to a disappointing annual ritual

    Golden Gate Canyon State Park in Golden, Colorado
  • Monday, 2 October, 2023
    OutlookUrban planning
    Detroit is sprucing itself up

    Ten years after declaring bankruptcy, Motor City is starting to bounce back

    Artist James Charles Morris poses next to a mural of his grandmother Dell Pryor in Detroit’s trendy ‘Cass Corridor’, formerly a derelict area mostly known for drugs and prostitution
  • Monday, 18 September, 2023
    OutlookRecreational drugs
    Tactics are shifting in the war on drugs

    Experimentation continues on measures to tackle addiction and fatal overdoses

    A box containing naloxone overdose emergency kits outside a store at Canal Park in Pennsylvania
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    OutlookArtificial intelligence
    How my AI friend ‘Pearl’ helps me manage my diabetes

    Artificial intelligence is being harnessed to improve the medical care of seniors

    A woman looks in the mirror at her tubed insulin pump clipped to her waist
  • Monday, 7 August, 2023
    OutlookReproductive rights
    Turmoil over US abortions turns spotlight on safe havens for newborns

    Just over a year after the ruling overturning Roe vs Wade, debate over ‘baby boxes’ is heated

    Safe Haven poster in a firestation
  • Monday, 24 July, 2023
    OutlookHarley-Davidson Inc
    Fans show Harley-Davidson has not quite run out of gas

    Grey beards abounded as thousands paraded their gleaming machines, but there were new recruits as well

    Younger Harley-Davidson fans Alyssa Hinderman and Logan Haverland in Milwaukee. ‘It’s tough to find people our age riding’ them, says Hinderman
  • Monday, 10 July, 2023
    OutlookMajor League Baseball
    Baseball tries to beat the clock to appeal to younger fans

    A sport geared too much to a baby boomer generation changes the rules of the game

    A baseman holds his bat aloft while watched by the crowd at a baseball game
  • Wednesday, 28 June, 2023
    OutlookUrban planning
    How heat discrimination divides US cities — right down to the trees

    Segregated and poorer areas were designed to be unequal, including the planting that helps cut temperatures

    A man without a shirt empties a big bottle of water over his head
  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    OutlookElectric vehicles
    EVs may become personal power plants for owners

    Pick-up trucks can keep a home running for three days in a hurricane or even feed energy back into the national grid

    Westley Ferguson used his electric pick-up truck for power during Hurricane Ian last year
  • Monday, 29 May, 2023
    OutlookSport
    America’s horse deaths bode ill for the sport of kings

    Even enthusiasts like me wonder if thoroughbred racing will survive much longer in the US

    Mage, left, the winning horse in the Kentucky Derby this month
  • Friday, 19 May, 2023
    HTSIHTSI spring travel special
    A paw-star review

    We put doggie tourism to the test

    The author’s dogs Huahua (left) and Dumpling at the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel
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