FT's senior US columnists Rana Foroohar and Edward Luce discuss the biggest themes driving US politics, business and markets from Washington, New York and beyond.
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There is an opportunity for the continent as investors look to diversify away from the US dollar, but seizing it will be difficult
America is heading in a lethal direction and nobody seems able to stop it
Trump says last week’s ruling in the birthright citizenship case is a ‘monumental victory’ for his administration — he might be right
There are clear lessons for Democrats across the country
Steve Bannon and a large chunk of the president’s base oppose further attacks on Iran
The US president resurfaced his belief the G7 should readmit Russia before his early exit from this week’s summit
Judges, not protesters, have the best chance of reining in the US president’s authoritarian impulses
The Trump administration has empowered ICE to cast its net wider
Ukraine’s audacious strike this week should send a jolt through the Pentagon and other western military headquarters
The real cause of their falling out has little to do with the US fiscal deficit
Who will best react to the economic and geopolitical challenges facing the US?
The US president has unwittingly turned King Charles into a symbol of Canadian sovereignty
The president’s fresh attack on Harvard is a disaster not just for the university but for America itself
The Democratic party needs to accept its culpability
Seismic forces have been unleashed that will transform the global economy
As Trump withdraws aid from the neediest around the world, China is filling the vacuum
The US president is trying to play Britain off against the EU
No president is immune to the tides of history
There may be worries about tariffs and the rule of law but one cannot discount US resilience
What does such sycophancy tell us about the state of US democracy?
Europe is moving away from a traditional view of antitrust policy to focus on platforms’ threat to democracy
Despite the fiasco of ‘Signalgate’, Trump seems determined to keep the US defence secretary in place
The educational value of the former UK prime minister’s cautionary tale is timeless
Going back to the 1990s is not going to fix what is broken globally
Democrats have used Tesla to undermine the entrepreneur and to highlight oligarchs’ role in the Trump administration