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Edward LuceFinancial Review |
The US president has already done lasting damage to international trust in America.
Anyone who claims to know where this conflict is heading is bluffing, including the president, whose war aims are kaleidoscopic.
The road to Trumpian recklessness is paved with flattery, as a cabinet of sycophants makes an already erratic US president a greater threat.
The California governor has just won over Europe and is riding high in prediction polls, but America’s Democratic voters will be a much tougher sell.
Donald Trump and his supporters see the UK capital as the symbol of a Europe facing “civilisational erasure”.
The depth of the convicted paedophile’s network shows America’s elite have no culture of shame. Some spurned his social approaches, but they were...
Donald Trump won office with immigration as his strongest issue, but he has turned ICE into a menacing paramilitary and the public is turning sharply...
Anyone who is confident that the US president is merely trolling on the self-governed Arctic territory should book a holiday in Caracas.
Leaders in the western hemisphere and beyond will be sleeping less easily. The US President is getting comfortable with the firepower at his disposal.
“America first” works as an election slogan. In fact, the US president has handed the initiative to Beijing in tech, energy and security.
When historians assess this age of American populism, Silicon Valley’s plutocrats will surely be judged its winners, writes Edward Luce.
The issue is Donald Trump’s Achilles heel – and the US president knows it. So do some Republicans wondering who will lead MAGA in a post-Trump world.
The issue is Donald Trump’s Achilles heel — and the US president knows it. So do some Republicans wondering who will lead MAGA in a post-Trump world.
The opening act of the US president’s second term is over. For the first time in a while, Democrats think they can see a way out of the gloom.
Those who fear the fall of US democracy should not extend their pessimism to America’s economy, which has so far been very lucky.
Trump’s latest piece of brinkmanship with China is likely to result in another climbdown.
The idea that disaffected voters will clip Donald Trump’s wings in the midterms is quixotic. What might he do in the next 14 months?
The US President’s love of royalty should not be confused with respect for the country’s political system. He’d prefer Nigel Farage over Keir Starmer.
The only realistic block to the US president’s untrammelled power on detention is the same nine-judge court that has already given him many green...
Many Republicans could lose their seats in Congress as a result of the president’s “reverse Robin Hood” budget. The economics is terrible for...
Think of Los Angeles as the president’s first beachhead in a national campaign to deport illegal immigrants. “We’re going to have troops...
Nothing to do with the US president’s China policy is predictable. Does he care about Taiwan? Does he want the US to decouple from China? Let’s...
In one way, Donald Trump is like Republican predecessors – he believes in tax cuts. What is novel is the foreboding he creates about faith in...
Congress is not even pretending to provide oversight on the president’s conflicts of interest. And federal ethics rules now seem little more than...
The Tesla founder’s lasting impact on Washington maybe to divert a big chunk of US taxpayer money to his empire.
Famously commonsensical Canada reminds us that some things – patriotism, dignity – can be valued higher than short-term economic growth.
Nayib Bukele’s Oval Office visit offered a civics lesson to the world: America’s government pays greater respect to a foreign strongman than its...
Having given the billionaire more power than any private figure in US history, the president is watching his benefactor turn into an albatross.
The first thing aspiring totalitarians do is conduct a purge of the military, so that loyalists can be installed. This is exactly what the US...
The world’s richest man is taking a torch to the American state on behalf of Donald Trump, but also to remove impediments to his business interests.
The judiciary poses the ultimate test of whether the president will break the system as the pair set about slashing government spending and cutting...
The president revels in his unpredictability, but over time he risks sowing distrust in America’s good faith.
Very little stands in the way of the president’s goal of remaking America as he ploughs ahead with signing executive orders.
The president’s speech this time carried far more specific actions, including territorial aggression on America’s neighbours and US troops on the...
The Trump-Musk antipathy towards European liberal democracy is real. The eastern side of the Atlantic alliance thus faces a journey without maps.
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