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    Fresh round of executive orders expected to push forward key agenda

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    ‘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

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

  • Tuesday, 24 November, 2020
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    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
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    A fickle America cannot lead the world

    Swings in foreign policy from president to president drain US power

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    US assets/election: blue wave goodbye Premium

    A correction in stocks and higher yield bonds is increasingly probable

  • Thursday, 22 October, 2020
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    Obama returns to campaign trail with blistering attack on Trump

    Former president says his successor ‘ignored’ the pandemic as Covid hospitalisations rise

  • Thursday, 15 October, 2020
    Jemima Kelly
    How hate became a driving force in elections

    The ad-hominem political attack designed to stir up anger or fear has become commonplace

  • Friday, 25 September, 2020
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    How Trump has already transformed America’s courts

    A generation of young, conservative federal judges could block laws from a future Democratic Congress

  • Sunday, 20 September, 2020
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The impressive legacy of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

    A rush to replace the late justice would damage the Supreme Court

  • Monday, 7 September, 2020
    Courtney Weaver
    Melania Trump mythbusters cast doubt on ‘captive princess’ fantasy

    Two books quash any last hopes critics of the US president have of a secret ally

  • Friday, 21 August, 2020
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    FT’s takeaways from first-ever virtual US presidential party convention

  • Friday, 21 August, 2020
    US presidential election 2020
    Trump reacts to criticism by former President Obama

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  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    US presidential election 2020
    Barack Obama launches blistering attack on Trump

    Kamala Harris accepts historic vice-presidential nomination at Democrats’ virtual convention

  • Thursday, 20 August, 2020
    Global InsightEdward Luce
    The promised land that slipped away from Obama

    Joe Biden is almost alone among Democrats in seeing the middle ground

  • Wednesday, 19 August, 2020
    US presidential election 2020
    Obamas share Biden’s spotlight to aid White House campaign

    Former first couple drafted to help reassemble winning 2008 and 2012 coalition

  • Sunday, 16 August, 2020
    Edward Luce
    Bidenomics and America’s new New Deal

    It is always better to have a plan than none, a lesson Republicans seem to have forgotten

  • Sunday, 2 August, 2020
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    The Michelle Obama Podcast is high production and real talk

    The former First Lady’s first guest is her husband, in a new thoughtful and optimistic podcast

  • Thursday, 30 July, 2020
    US politics & policy
    Barack Obama makes a ringing call for voting reform

    Former president sends strong political message in eulogy for civil rights activist John Lewis

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    John Roberts, a conservative judge surprises

    US Supreme Court chief justice’s recent votes emphasise the independence of the judiciary

  • Friday, 26 June, 2020
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    US election: is Trump already too far behind Biden?

    With the White House facing heavy criticism, the former vice-president leads the polls despite doing little campaigning

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