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    • Friday, 2 December, 2022
      News in-depthUS midterm elections
      ‘We can’t be complacent’: Obama rallies Democrats as they seek victory in Georgia

      Campaign of incumbent senator Raphael Warnock says Republican opponent Herschel Walker is unfit for office

    • Sunday, 6 November, 2022
      News in-depthUS midterm elections
      Democrats call on Obama star power to save them in Pennsylvania

      Worried strategists hope ex-president can convince the faithful to come out to vote next Tuesday

    • Saturday, 5 November, 2022
      US midterm elections
      Biden, Obama and Trump target Pennsylvania ahead of midterms

      Democratic and Republican political heavyweights hit campaign trail in state ahead of election fight for Congress

    • Friday, 26 August, 2022
      ReviewFiction
      The Unfolding by AM Homes — America in late-life crisis

      An ageing A-team of proto-fascist sympathisers band together to defend conservative values

    • Tuesday, 9 November, 2021
      Moral Money
      The nations at risk of total devastation from climate change Premium content

      Plus, Taiwan pushes to be a part of the conversation on global warming

    • Monday, 8 November, 2021
      COP26
      Barack Obama urges young to pick up climate baton in rousing COP26 speech

      Former US president brings stardust to unglamorous summit focused on task of agreeing complex rules

    • Friday, 17 September, 2021
      Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership
      China’s request to join transpacific pact will be judged on merit, say US allies

      Beijing submits application just a day after Washington forms new military partnership

    • Saturday, 11 September, 2021
      FT Books Essay
      Forever at war — the bloody legacy of 9/11

      Two books look at the effects of the attacks and argue they turned the US into a martial state in perpetual conflict

    • Friday, 2 July, 2021
      FT Swamp Notes
      Russian crime but little punishment Premium content

      Inability of Biden administration to confront Putin’s foreign aggression casts shadow on America’s ability to lead globally again

    • Tuesday, 11 May, 2021
      US foreign policy
      Rahm Emanuel to be appointed US ambassador to Japan

      Former Chicago mayor will boost Washington’s alliance with Tokyo as China’s influence grows

    • Friday, 30 April, 2021
      HTSIThe Hope Issue
      Adam Curtis: my hope manifesto

      The acclaimed documentary filmmaker discusses optimism in a pessimistic age, reasons to be cheerful and his own wishes for the future

    • Friday, 16 April, 2021
      Andrew Exum
      What the Afghanistan withdrawal means to those who served there

      It seems safe to predict that conflict will persist in the troubled country after US forces have left

    • Thursday, 15 April, 2021
      The Big Read
      Iran: nuclear talks intensify domestic power struggle

      Having survived Trump’s ‘maximum pressure’, hardliners seek to ram home their political advantage over reformist rivals

    • Sunday, 21 March, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Border crisis threatens the Biden honeymoon

      The US president must risk upsetting his own party to control migration

    • Sunday, 21 March, 2021
      Peter Richard Orszag
      Joe Biden’s climate bill deserves bold fiscal support

      But Republicans and Democrats disagree about how to fund spending

    • Monday, 1 March, 2021
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      Obama and Springsteen tackle tough topics on new podcast

      Renegades: Born in the USA begins as two pals chewing the fat but gets deep very quickly

    • Monday, 25 January, 2021
      Climate change
      The new Biden climate team — like the old Obama team

      Fresh round of executive orders expected to push forward key agenda

    • Monday, 4 January, 2021
      Patti Waldmeir
      ‘Defund the police’ is the culmination of decades of calls for reform

      Democrats worry the ‘snappy slogan’ could put voters off but it is driving necessary change

    • Thursday, 3 December, 2020
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      I’m a celebrity, give me the vaccine live on TV!

      How 2020 is becoming ever more like an episode of the dystopian TV series Black Mirror.

    • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
      Janan Ganesh
      Joe Biden’s foreign policy should steer clear of missionary idealism

      Barack Obama’s prudence abroad is a good model for the president-elect

    • Monday, 23 November, 2020
      ReviewUS politics & policy
      Barack Obama’s A Promised Land — the thrill of the journey 

      The former US president’s limpid memoir is a blast until he reaches the White House

    • Saturday, 21 November, 2020
      Sarah Sands
      Obama, Diana and the meaning of ambition

      Barack Obama learnt that politics was about conveying messages through emotion or rhetoric, rather than conducting public life as a seminar

    • Thursday, 12 November, 2020
      Philip Stephens
      The ‘special relationship’ has run out of time

      Joe Biden is unlikely to bear a grudge against Boris Johnson, but the UK is losing its relevance

    • Monday, 9 November, 2020
      Gideon Rachman
      Populists worldwide have lost their leader

      Donald Trump’s loss will deflate many autocrats outside the US, but it will not defeat them

    • Friday, 6 November, 2020
      Janan Ganesh
      A fickle America cannot lead the world

      Swings in foreign policy from president to president drain US power

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