Edward Luce - Financial Times

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Washington must stop the creeping rust

©Matt Kenyon

The need to invest for the future becomes alarmingly clear

Nov 18, 2012

Obama’s path to Xanadu runs via Jerusalem

Tug of war between Mideast realities and Pacific strategy

Editorial A dangerous spiral of violence in Gaza
David Frum Why the Republicans lost

©Matt Kenyon Nov 11, 2012

Obama’s next task is to split the GOP

The president must use seduction and brinkmanship to persuade Republicans to accept reality

President Barack Obama addresses a crowd of supporters on stage

©AFP From WORLD Nov 7, 2012

Obama 2.0 offers reboot of ‘hope’

Re-elected president holds the cards. How will he play them?

Simon Schama Why Obama won
Jacob Weisberg Why Mitt Romney lost

From WORLD Nov 7, 2012

Obama must renew bipartisan effort

With a fresh initiative, the next term has lofty goals

Comment Now comes America’s real test
Jurek Martin Republicans need to think long and hard

©Matt Kenyon Nov 4, 2012

US choice - a gamble or the devil we know

I suspect Mitt Romney would be far more pragmatic in reality than the persona he adopted

©Matt Kenyon Oct 28, 2012

The president struggles to convince

If Barack Obama wants to win the election, he could do more to show it

US election Obama’s endgame
Romney ‘ground game’ plays hardball

From WORLD Oct 23, 2012

Debate reflects an inward-looking America

Dull exercise betrays absence of new thinking about the world

From LIFE & ARTS Oct 21, 2012

US immigration policy is killing innovation

Vivek Wadhwa’s ‘The Immigrant Exodus’ shows the effects of closing the doors to talented foreigners

The Year of Dreaming Dangerously, by Slavoj Zizek
Samuel Brittan The Great Degeneration, by Niall Ferguson

©Matt Kenyon Oct 21, 2012

Shadow of 9/11 towers over the US election

The presidential campaign shows that America has not yet left the Bush era behind

Obama advisers defend his record
In depth US elections 2012

From OPINION Oct 17, 2012

Presidential wow factor may be just enough

Obama’s second debate performance could restore evenness of the race

Oct 14, 2012

Mexico is forgotten story of US election

Americans only think of their neighbour as a law and order problem

Oct 7, 2012

The ghoul of half truths is not America’s real problem

Now is one of those times when moral sensibility misses the wood for the trees

From WORLD Oct 4, 2012

Time for an Obama game change

Debate in Denver could be a turning point for Romney campaign

Sep 30, 2012

Obama will need more than luck

If he returns to the White House, the president will face a daunting second term

Sep 23, 2012

The US economy is still in a sorry state

It requires optimism at this stage to believe the patient is about to arise and go for a jog

Sep 16, 2012

The GOP shows no sign of braking before the cliff

Never before has politics been as consciously likely to wreck the economy

Sep 9, 2012

America’s season of hollow boastfulness

Each candidate, with their different visions, is indulging in national denial

Sep 2, 2012

Back to the Future for Obama in Charlotte

If the president wins a second term he will be stymied in most of his agenda

Aug 26, 2012

The elephant in the room: Romney the pragmatist

He has been forced to abandon common sense positions to get the nomination

ABOUT EDWARD

Edward Luce is the Washington columnist and commentator for the Financial Times. He writes a weekly column, FT's leaders/editorials on American politics and the economy and other articles.

Ed has worked for the FT since 1995 as Philippines correspondent, capital markets editor, South Asia bureau chief in New Delhi and Washington bureau chief between 2006 and 2011. In 2000 Ed was the chief speechwriter for Lawrence H. Summers, the US Treasury secretary. His first book, In Spite of the Gods, The Strange Rise of Modern India remains a high seller.

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