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Edward Luce

US National Editor and Columnist

Edward Luce is the US national editor and columnist at the Financial Times. Luce's forthcoming biography of Zbigniew Brzezinski "Zbig, The life of Zbig Brzezinski: America's great power prophet", comes out in May 2025, Simon & Schuster in the US, Bloomsbury in the UK.

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.

Meet Edward

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  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Trump’s ominous ICE security state

    The nation of immigrants’ shift to mass deportation is among the most shocking turns in US history

    Illustration of leaflets reading ‘Playbill: Trump theater’, with the show’s title: ‘The ICE man cometh’
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    The US left’s glaring attention deficit Premium content

    America is heading in a lethal direction and nobody seems able to stop it

  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    InterviewLunch with the FT
    Steve Bannon: ‘Trump is going to be in your head for a long time’

    The former White House chief strategist on why he believes the Iran strikes were a win, his time in jail — and what Zohran Mamdani means for the Democrats

    Artistic watercolor portrait of a man with gray hair and a stern expression
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Donald Trump’s big, beautiful act of self-harm

    Many Republicans could lose their seats in Congress as a result of the president’s reverse Robin Hood budget

    President Donald Trump attends a press conference at the White House last week
  • Sunday, 22 June, 2025
    Instant InsightUS foreign policy
    Trump has opened a Pandora’s box 

    The US president hopes that his display of power in Iran will stop the war — but that is not his decision to make 

    President Donald Trump walks on the South Lawn upon arriving at the White House
  • Saturday, 21 June, 2025
    Swamp Notes podcast17 min listen
    Trump considers war in Iran

    US President Donald Trump considers bombing Iran — at the risk of alienating his base

  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    US foreign policy
    Maga’s battle with Israel for Trump’s mind

    A bitter fight is on between restrainers and neoconservatives

    US President Donald Trump
  • Friday, 20 June, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump and Putin, episode 101 Premium content

    The US president resurfaced his belief the G7 should readmit Russia before his early exit from this week’s summit

    US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin reach to shake hands before a meeting in 2018
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Return of the American assassin

    The right has no monopoly on violent fantasy, but liberals are far less likely to own guns

    US President Donald Trump gestures with a bloodied face while he is assisted by US Secret Service personnel after he was shot
  • Friday, 13 June, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Farewell to a ‘nation of immigrants’? Premium content

    The Trump administration has empowered ICE to cast its net wider

    Stephen Miller, deputy White House chief of staff for policy, speaks to members of the media outside the White House
  • Tuesday, 10 June, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Trump is coming for the ‘enemy within’

    Sending the National Guard into LA is the administration’s clearest step yet towards authoritarianism

    Police officers in tactical gear patrol in front of Los Angeles City Hall
  • Friday, 6 June, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Are Trump and Musk now enemies? Premium content

    The real cause of their falling out has little to do with the US fiscal deficit

    A montage of Elon Musk in a thoughtful pose with his hands, Donald Trump with his fist slightly raised, images of US dollar bills and the X logo
  • Tuesday, 3 June, 2025
    US-China relations
    The great Trump riddle on China

    No one knows what the US president’s desired endgame with Beijing really is

    Close up of Donald Trump leaning over to talk to Xi Jinping
  • Saturday, 31 May, 2025
    Swamp Notes podcast18 min listen
    Do Republicans still care about debt?

    The House of Representatives voted to spend more and cut less. Many Republicans don’t mind

  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Trump is making the monarchy great again Premium content

    The US president has unwittingly turned King Charles into a symbol of Canadian sovereignty

    Canada’s head of state King Charles III delivers the opening speech for parliament in Ottawa on May 27 beside Prime Minister Mark Carney
  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
    US economy
    America’s rising ‘moron premium’

    Trump’s mercurial war on economic orthodoxy is making markets jittery

    Illustration of Trump being crushed by a giant treasury bond
  • Friday, 23 May, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    America cannot afford to sweep Biden’s blunders under the carpet Premium content

    The Democratic party needs to accept its culpability

    On November 21 2024, then US President Joe Biden, alongside First Lady Jill Biden, speaks as they host a dinner to thank supporters on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington
  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Maga world’s new split: Bannon vs plutocrats

    Some Republicans warn that a tax-cutting budget will destroy the party’s standing with working-class voters

    Composite photo of Steve Bannon, left, and Elon Musk
  • Friday, 16 May, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    Farewell to Joseph Nye — and to US soft power too? Premium content

    As Trump withdraws aid from the neediest around the world, China is filling the vacuum

  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    US politics & policy
    Donald Trump’s gargantuan self-dealing

    Federal ethics rules now seem little more than decoration

    A Boeing 747 sits on the tarmac of Palm Beach International airport after US President Donald Trump toured the aircraft
  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    InterviewInterview50 min
    Steve Bannon: 'President Trump will serve a third term' | FT

    ‘We’re going to suspend habeas corpus if the courts don’t allow mass deportations’

    Steve Bannon
  • Friday, 9 May, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    America’s past is prologue — even for Trump Premium content

    No president is immune to the tides of history

    Former US national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in 2007
  • Tuesday, 6 May, 2025
    Elon Musk
    Elon Musk’s painful departure

    The Tesla CEO’s much-heralded war on government waste has had uncertain results

    Elon Musk
  • Saturday, 3 May, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast19 min listen
    Swamp Notes: The conservative view on tariffs now

    Oren Cass and Edward Luce discuss whether tariffs still make sense for Americans on the right

  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    FT Swamp Notes
    TDS is a real condition Premium content

    What does such sycophancy tell us about the state of US democracy?

    US President Donald Trump smiles during a Cabinet meeting at the White House
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