Edward Luce

Polls show a big shrinkage of working-class support for Trump, particularly among non-white voters.

Trump is not just sinking in the Gulf

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

Britain's former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor is among the royals and other powerful figures who were part of Epstein's expansive network.

The Epstein rot goes deep

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

George Soros has given grants to hundreds of human-rights groups, investigative journalists and democracy advocates.

Why Trump is going for Soros

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

That Trump himself has previously admitted to being a friend of Epstein for 15 years is creeping into Maga consciousness.

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

In ignorance of how the federal government works, Musk is only causing damage.

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.

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 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