Edward Luce

The US has countries suspicious of it in every continent, not just in its own backyard

The wars waged by Russia and the US in Ukraine and Iran are case studies in geopolitical self-harm

Shooting on Apr 25 is third assassination attempt on the US president in under two years

As his poll numbers tank, the president’s trade and immigration agendas are encountering judicial resistance too

America must now ask itself if it can restore a culture of shame

The philanthropist is as close as the world’s strongmen get to a cross-border demon

For years he insisted on a deep-state plot that only he could expose. Now he says there is nothing to show

America’s 47th president plays unwitting ally to non-populists everywhere except at home

Fear and muddled thinking are stopping Trump’s opponents from acting in defence of a democracy in peril

The cost for Donald Trump of keeping the world’s richest man by his side is growing