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Edward Luce

(FILES) Hungarian-born US investor and philanthropist George Soros answers to questions after delivering a speech on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting in Davos on May 24, 2022. US President Donald Trump called on August 27, 2025, for billionaire George Soros and his son to face criminal charges over unfounded claims that the family, a favorite target of the right, is behind "violent protests" around the country. Trump did not specify what prompted his morning outburst, but it comes as his administration pursues multiple criminal investigations against his perceived enemies. (Photo by Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)

Why Trump is going for Soros

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

US President Donald Trump arrives to deliver remarks at the National Veterans Day Observance at the Memorial Amphitheatre in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on May 26, 2025. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP)

Trump is flunking his Epstein test

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

Carney gave Canada’s median voter a crash course in the merits of rules-based internationalism.
THE BOTTOM LINE

Mark Carney: democracy’s unTrump

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

By voting last week to keep the US government running on President Donald Trump’s terms, Chuck Schumer dropped Democrats’ sole leverage.

The US establishment is scared of its own shadow

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

FILE PHOTO: Tesla CEO Elon Musk looks on next to U.S. President Donald Trump talking to the media, at the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., March 11, 2025. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque/File Photo

Elon Musk’s self-destruction

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

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump (left) and Tesla CEO Elon Musk at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Musk's support for Trump may stem from deregulatory benefits that he may gain.

What Croesus wants from Trump

Rather than turning to Harris, US billionaires are again backing the man they once condemned

While Senator JD Vance (left) exuded confidence and fluency in the Oct 1 debate with Governor Tim Walz, the Republican vice-presidential candidate also told some whopping lies.
THE BOTTOM LINE

JD Vance won the debate, but it probably will not matter

His performance offers a clue to the future of the Republican Party

Affirmative action supporters walk through a gate at Harvard University on July 1, 2023, the day after the US Supreme Court ruled that race-conscious admissions programmes at Harvard and the University of North Carolina were unconstitutional.

The moral bankruptcy of Ivy League America

Frenzy over affirmative action is a red herring as long as broader educational opportunity is so limited

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