Edward Luce



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Articles: 2015

 * The great American disconnect - In Silicon Valley, ‘fail harder’ is a motto. In Washington a single miscue can ruin your career - 30th March
 * US gridlock’s rising global price tag - America’s ability to manage the chaos in the Middle East is the biggest casualty of logjam - 23rd March
 * Obama’s gamble on the future of Iran - At stake is the idea that talking to your worst enemies makes sense - 16th March
 * Hillary Clinton’s gathering storm - Once again she is the ‘inevitable nominee’, with the inflated expectations that brings - 9th March
 * Jesus García cannot save Chicago - Mayoral hopeful offers no fix for city’s fiscal ills - 2nd March
 * Yellen’s problem with felons - Some 13m Americans with a criminal record weigh on unemployment - 23rd February
 * London’s role in the Republican race - The UK capital-as-prop highlights the dearth of thinking on both sides of the Atlantic - 16th February
 * The jesters shaping American politics - With public life at a low ebb, sarcasm is having a field day - 9th February
 * The perils of a strong US dollar - The bad news is the US recovery is based on the familiar model of rising consumption - 2nd February
 * Obama’s savvy bet on India’s rise - US adjustment to multipolar world will be shaped by whether it gets along with New Delhi - 26th January
 * A lame duck president in a strutting pose - Real message of speech is the push for another Clinton presidency - 22nd January
 * Joe Sixpack, jihadis and the 2016 race - Main Street’s stagnation and terrorism are the issues on which the next election is unfolding - 19th January
 * US finds common cause with France - Effective handling of the attack on Charlie Hebdo has invoked something in America’s DNA - 12th January
 * US should enjoy sunshine while it lasts - In 2015 Europe will still be waiting for Godot while America copes with return to normality - 5th January



Articles: 2014

 * Is the west clinically depressed? - The less we grow, the more we squabble over budgets - 22nd December
 * Too big to resist: Wall Street’s comeback - There will be another crisis. No law can stop it, no regulator can foresee it - 15th December
 * Bold and sold: Obama spoils diplomacy - Washington should keep its friendships in good repair - 8th December
 * Clinton’s rickety bridge to the White House - Voters lack a compelling reason to embrace Democrats, as opposed to simply rejecting Republicans - 1st December
 * China is no refuge from Obama’s woes - Beijing sees the US president as a weak leader in the autumn of his presidency - 9th November
 * Bell tolls for Obama ahead of 2016 - Repudiated president will spend final years grappling with victorious Republicans - 6th November
 * Obama can learn from George W Bush - It is possible to retrieve a failing presidency its final quarter and leave office with high ratings - 3rd November
 * Suspicion of authority feeds Ebola panic - More than 45 per cent believe they or their friends and relatives will get the disease - 29th October
 * Bradlee’s tribute to journalism’s purpose - Reporting is about stories as well as numbers, and it is exciting and important - 23rd October
 * Jimmy Carter flashback – US midterms malaise - Leaders do not lead. Institutions repeatedly fail and no one seems to be held accountable - 20th October
 * The riddle of black America’s rising woes under Obama - Those who have fared worst under this president are the ones who love him the most - 12th October
 * Obama the victim as aides rush into print - Panetta’s memoirs mark the fifth such book by a senior official - 8th October
 * Blinded EU can learn from one-eyed US - If you listen to German officials, their philosophy is hard to distinguish from Tea Party Republicans - 6th October
 * Obama’s Faustian pact with the Saudis - By suffocating freedom, Saudi Arabia multiplies the supply of recruits for groups such as Isis - 29th September
 * Modi orbits Washington (via Mars) - India’s power is growing as America’s declines - 27th September
 * The short-sighted US buyback boom - Unless the roots of the problem are fixed, boardrooms will keep on draining their treasuries - 22nd September
 * US ‘war on terror’ by any other name - If you embark on something with your eyes half-open, you are likelier to lose your way - 15th September
 * Tartan America: on the march - Across the US, Scottish-Americans are rediscovering their roots and celebrating their heritage. So how would they vote in next week’s referendum? - 13th September
 * Heads Obama loses, tails his rivals win - The less visible the president is, the better are his party’s odds of retaining control of the Senate - 8th September
 * Hippocratic oath enfeebles Obama - It makes little sense to telegraph reluctance to put US boots on the ground to America’s foes - 18th August
 * GOP must regain foreign policy realism - Instinctive militarism is now the Republican way, force is the answer no matter what the question - 5th August
 * Republicans must regain their foreign policy realism - Instinctive militarism is now the Republican way, force is the answer no matter what the question - 4th August
 * Obama needs to play the honest broker in the Mideast - The rote quality of America’s role masks changes taking place on the president’s watch - 28th July
 * Republicans renege on business pact - The list of anti-corporate stances by the party is remarkably long - 21st July
 * Loss of trust: Obama’s Germany syndrome - When the president makes a promise, people are no longer inclined to take him at his word - 14th July
 * A leader to heal transatlantic tensions - It is little use knowing which number to call if the recipient keeps hanging up - 7th July
 * The era of US drone supremacy is fading - America would not tolerate another country operating with the same scope and secrecy - 30th June
 * America’s neocons jolted back to life - Today’s world, with all its seeming chaos, is fertile ground for Bush-era conservatives - 23rd June
 * War of Clinton-Bush dynasties benefits US - Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush are by far their party’s most qualified candidates - 9th June
 * Middle class frozen out of US recovery - When most of the gains of growth are going to a small slice at the top, little of the money is spent - 2nd June
 * Modi’s existential challenge to Obama - If the US president is to retrieve the geopolitical initiative, he must win over India’s leader - 26th May
 * US bet on gas throws caution to the wind - However cushioned the American energy basket might look, it is unwise to put all your eggs in it - 19th May
 * Hedge fund titans are testing US democracy - If branches of government bow to big business, public policy will be decided by the highest bidder - 12th May
 * Uncertainty is replacing US power - America is behaving like a declining hegemon: unwilling to share power yet unable to impose - 5th May
 * Modi is both India’s Jekyll and Hyde - There are two sides to the BJP leader’s character and the dark side is very dark - 1st May
 * America’s compulsive urge to regulate - With its spider’s web of local and federal rules, the US is swinging back to intrusion - 28th April
 * The master of cold war diplomacy - Two books laud Brzezinski’s understanding of Russian nationalism - 21st April
 * How Obama lost influence with Brics - The president’s real pivot is not to Asia but to America, inspired by domestic sentiment - 21st April
 * The US cable barons must be challenged - No one in Washington seems to have the will to stop them tightening their grip on the internet - 13th April
 * Obama’s attention deficit diplomacy - Shared universal ideals have been supplanted by hard-nosed realism, but at a cost - 7th April
 * America’s democracy is fit for the 1% - Both US parties are up for rent, and patriots of all stripes should be troubled - 31st March
 * The strange revival of Republican America - Demographic and other factors are against the Grand Old Party but its electoral hopes are high - 24th March
 * Britain has lost America’s respect - The “special relationship” has been compromised by one side that is no longer sure of who it is - 17th March
 * Imperial presidency quietly strikes back - Obama’s words suggest he is reluctant to use his vast power. His actions convey the opposite - 10th March
 * Putin cooks up Obama’s chicken Kiev moment - Diplomacy is Obama’s preferred weapon. Now he must prove he can wield it - 3rd March
 * Obama’s funeral for a policy success - Rarely has the gap between the US public’s perception and that of economists been greater - 24th February
 * To Russia with love: Obama’s energy lever - The US energy windfall will enable Washington to loosen Moscow’s grip on its neighbours - 17th February
 * The Fed’s waning magic in Yellen’s era - With a forecast year of take-off in danger of faltering, the central bank has run out of ammunition - 10th February
 * Obama’s trade agenda hangs on a thin Reid - The Democrat from Nevada never met a trade deal he liked - 3rd February
 * High stakes merger for Hillary Clinton and Obama - The former Democratic rivals will now sink or swim together - 27th January
 * The rise of a new US federalism - With federal government largely paralysed, the future is being shaped in the cities - 20th January
 * The tide is rising for America’s libertarians - The new spirit in a rising climate of anti-politics has become an attitude, rather than a movement - 13th January
 * Mute the Anglo-Saxon trumpeting - Higher US growth cannot mask that this is its weakest recovery on record. Ditto for the UK - 6th January



Articles: 2013

 * A year in a word: Sequestration - The budgetary mechanism’s importance reflects the breakdown of trust in Washington - 30th December
 * America must dump its disrupters in 2014 - This has been a very disruptive year but nothing about it was creative or constructive - 23rd December
 * India’s parties unite in outrage at US - A diplomatic storm has blown up over the arrest of an Indian consular official on American soil - 19th December
 * The White House may soon light up again - Obama now has the aid he needs to alter the political equation - 16th December
 * Obama cannot lead from behind on trade - Continuing to tiptoe around the issue is unlikely to serve the president for much longer - 9th December
 * Higher pay is the tonic that America needs - The argument for broad-based income growth is as compelling as it is watertight - 1st December
 * Moocs are no magic bullet for Americans - Methods of teaching make only marginal difference if content is irrelevant to the jobs market - 25th November
 * The Obama presidency is failing - With the exception of the debt ceiling debacle, he has fallen at almost every hurdle - 18th November
 * Iran will test Obama’s game plan - Talks could show how easily he is outplayed by tougher opponents, including the US Congress - 11th November
 * Snowden has done us all a favour - For a whole generation, the US is coming to stand for Big Brother - 4th November
 * Obamacare glitches are no mere hiccup - The US president has been caught serially off guard by recent crises, from Syria to spying - 28th October
 * Stupid to think the Tea Party is brainless - The way to deal with the movement is not through ridicule but to understand its motivation – and the fact it is not finished yet - 21st October
 * We will be hearing more from Ted Cruz - Republican party’s brinkmanship has squandered so much in such a short time and achieved nothing - 17th October
 * Sclerosis of the US ‘non-essential’ state - Avoiding disaster is becoming Obama’s abiding role. Top of the list is stopping a sovereign default - 14th October
 * Seizures short-circuit US soft power - It may be hard to pin down, but you know credibility is leaking - 7th October
 * Obama must swiftly end the US shutdown - To prevail in this crisis the president must wrestle with public’s apathy as well as with Republicans - 2nd October
 * Republican lost cause – Obamacare - Stand-off over healthcare reform puts the US at a bizarre juncture - 30th September
 * Congress is putting the dollar in peril - Fresh evidence of US self-harm would hasten diversification to other currencies - 23rd September
 * Summers must junk Wall Street friends - He needs to recant much of the 1990s financial deregulation he helped bring about - 16th September
 * A trap of the president’s making - Obama’s characteristic caution has put him in a perilous position - 9th September
 * Obama’s battle to win over the House - Public passion against Syria strikes far exceeds lukewarm support - 5th September
 * Obama risks more than credibility on Syria - US president may be getting into a game he cannot control - 2nd September
 * Obama’s credibility rests on Syria strikes - The fear is that the US president is embarking on a mission that will rapidly start to creep - 29th August
 * The US president is weaker than you think - Joseph Nye’s book offers a ranking of leaders - 12th August
 * Actually, Washington ain’t that bad - Critics on both left and right overlook the fact that DC’s gridlock reflects the electorate - 5th August
 * Obama must take a bet on start-ups - Making things easier for risk-takers is a way to reach elusive economic goals - 29th July
 * US voters hate the sin but love the sinner - Americans make a big distinction between sexual misconduct and financial corruption - 22nd July
 * Simpson and Bowles are wrong on US debt - The deficit hawks were mistaken before 2008 and they remain so - 15th July
 * Weary US consumer shoulders a big load - With China slowing, Europe still stuck and Japan in doubt, America has a heroic task - 8th July
 * Obama’s trip to Africa is too little – and very late - China-Africa trade is now twice the level of US-Africa trade - 1st July
 * Republicans are out of step with the times - Gulf between party base and the middle ground cripples its ability to field appealing candidates - 24th June
 * Obama needs to embrace US cities - America’s economic health is linked to urban vitality - 17th June
 * Obama has hurt himself and business - Data privacy is a handy weapon for those challenging the titans - 10th June
 * The future of the American city - Once, Americans fled inner cities for the sprawling lawns of the suburban dream. Now, in a ‘great inversion’, US urban centres like Detroit and LA are springing back to life – as the suburbs become the new home of the poor - 8th June
 * Obama’s faith in the geek elite - Self-interest guides the Big Data companies, and the same is often true of the White House - 3rd June
 * Summers has edge in race to head Fed - Charm is overrated. The most important quality for this role is intellectual leadership - 27th May
 * Kerry displays his vaulting ambitions - The secretary of state is tackling a vast range of foreign issues - 20th May
 * Beyond America’s fiscal trench lines - Away from the political impasse are stirrings that could nurture growth - 13th May
 * Arsonists v architects: Republican civil war - Can the party recapture a purpose in governing or will it become a regional party of the south? - 6th May
 * Obama’s manoeuvres lead to an impasse - The president’s achievable goals remain a matter of conjecture - 29th April
 * Obama must tread warily after Boston - Tragedies often crystallise a country’s political mood - 22nd April
 * Why the US is looking to Germany - When it comes to the labour market, America is suffering from a case of ‘German envy’ - 15th April
 * Timid US visa reform will deter workers - The H1B visa manages to annoy everyone - 8th April
 * US inequality will define the Obama era - Since the financial crisis, each year has brought lower median incomes than the last - 1st April
 * As Congress sleeps the 2016 race begins - Voter interest in the next election - not least in Hillary Clinton - is intensifying - 25th March
 * Dangers lurk in US permanent campaign - The journey from idealist to insider is now complete - 18th March
 * A good engineer who knows his own limits - The Federal Reserve under Ben Bernanke has been the only serious economic actor in Washington - 11th March
 * A taste for mutually assured destruction - US sequestration looks likely only to entrench the partisanship it was supposed to circumvent - 4th March
 * Corporate tie binds US to a slow internet - Comcast’s meteoric rise has concided with a drastic decline in service - 25th February
 * Obama is right to resist the Syria hawks - The president’s lack of diplomatic creativity, rather than his sense of caution, is his real Achilles heel - 18th February
 * Fellow Americans, let’s govern seriously - What Obama might want to say in his State of the Union address - 10th February
 * Obama must face the rise of the robots - Technology will leave a large chunk of the US labour force in the lurch - 4th February
 * Budget battles and careless cuts - Whatever happens at the next fiscal cliff will further dent America’s growth prospects - 28th January
 * Obama must atone for his carbon omissions - His promise of energy security no substitute for action on global warming - 21st January
 * No peacocks, jerks or whiners in Obama 2.0 - Second-term team suggests renewed focus on foreign policy - 14th January
 * Tea Party’s moment of maximum leverage - The question is whether they dive into their own political abyss in unison or in pieces - 7th January



Articles: 2012

 * Obama’s coming leap of faith on Europe - By acting now, the two regions still have the leverage to set standards - 24th December
 * Obama’s year of reckoning awaits on Iran - President faces uninvented threats from around the world - 17th December
 * The fiscal cliff could split the Republicans - If Obama persuades enough of the GOP to vote for a tax rise, the party may face civil war - 10th December
 * America’s Thelma and Louise moment - Congress will still have to confront the ‘fiscal abyss’ that lies beyond the cliff - 3rd December
 * Washington must stop the creeping rust - The need to invest for the future becomes alarmingly clear - 26th November
 * Obama’s path to Xanadu runs via Jerusalem - Tug of war between Mideast realities and Pacific strategy - 19th November
 * Obama’s next task is to split the GOP - President must use seduction and brinkmanship to persuade Republicans to accept reality - 12th November
 * Obama must renew bipartisan effort - With a fresh initiative, the next term has lofty goals - 8th November
 * 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 - 5th November
 * The president struggles to convince - If Barack Obama wants to win the election, he could do more to show it - 28th October
 * Debate reflects an inward-looking America - Dull exercise betrays absence of new thinking about the world - 24th October
 * Shadow of 9/11 towers over the US election - The presidential campaign shows that the US has not yet left the Bush era behind - 21st October
 * Presidential wow factor may be just enough - Obama’s second debate performance could restore evenness of the race - 19th October
 * Mexico is forgotten story of US election - Americans only think of their neighbour as a law and order problem - 15th October
 * 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 - 8th October
 * Obama will need more than luck - If he returns to the White House, the president will face a daunting second term - 1st October
 * 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 - 24th September
 * The GOP shows no sign of braking before the cliff - Never before has politics been as consciously likely to wreck the economy - 17th September
 * America’s season of hollow boastfulness - Each candidate, with their different visions, is indulging in national denial - 10th September
 * Back to the Future for Obama in Charlotte - If the president wins a second term he will be stymied in most of his agenda - 3rd September
 * The elephant in the room: Romney the pragmatist - He has been forced to abandon common sense positions to get the nomination - 27th August
 * Why the UK was right on Romney - It has its faults but the British media has a reasonable track record at detecting bluff - 30th July
 * A welcome jolt to shortsighted Washington - Two Californian cities may succeed in taking on Wall Street where Obama has failed - 23rd July
 * Welcome to the new world of American energy - A nation is turning from a voracious consumer into a producer of plenty - 16th July
 * Survival of the weakest: economy vs Romney - Most Americans are worse off than they were four years ago. Why, then, do most pundits expect Mr Obama to win? - 9th July
 * Obama healthcare war will rage on - Although the president has won a famous battle, neither side believes the epic struggle is over - 2nd July
 * Unlike LBJ, Obama battles frozen politics - The major difference in 2012 is that America’s chief polarisation is between, not within, the parties - 25th June
 * The leaks that are devaluing the Obama doctrine - Obama’s eagerness to flesh out his national security persona also makes him look cynical - 18th June
 * From the California Dream to a cautionary tale - The more voters tie the assembly’s hands, the more they despise its failures - 11th June
 * America’s unlikely class-war candidates - The biggest class divisions are not between the Republicans and Democrats but within them - 4th June
 * Worst is still ahead for Obama’s chief firefighter - Geithner advises to do what it takes to stop the system - 28th May
 * Facebook president in need of new friends'' - The social network site’s ethos captures the zeitgeist of Obama’s administration - 21st May
 * The moral majority is in headlong retreat - Overt racism, misogyny and, most recently, homophobia have ceased to be respectable in America - 14th May
 * There are few sparks in a sputtering US recovery - What many hoped was a return to growth is to looking like another summer of hibernation - 7th May
 * The neocons are back vying for a seat in the White House - Most of Mitt Romney’s stances poll reasonably with the American public - 22nd April
 * Obama needs to find a theme soon - It should be little surprise that in recent polls, Romney is in a statistical tie with the president - 23rd April
 * Housing policy is holding back America’s recovery - The situation demands a bazooka. Obama is still offering only a rifle - 16th April
 * America reassembles industrial policy - Nobody would confuse the US tax code with the design of rational mind - 9th April
 * Obama’s very own Kennedy moment - Supreme Court health bill ruling will be an election bombshell - 2nd April
 * America’s dream unravels - As other nations rise, the US is in relative economic decline – and the country’s political system is making things worse - 30th March



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