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Associate Editor, Financial Times, US-based writer/columnist. Former DC & India bureau chief. Author of The Retreat of Western Liberalism. Tweets are personal.

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    7 hours ago

    On the upcoming episode (which will go live shortly) of , asks whether the abuse of power currently going on at DHS warrants shutting down DHS for good. And asks "What is the world capital of omnishambolic clusterfuckery?" Don't miss it.

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  2. 15 hours ago

    White House is insisting on zero money for testing & contact tracing in Congress stimulus bill - zero. Trump would rather America flies blind on pandemic than register a rising infection rate. This is way worse than negligence. He knows exactly what he's doing.

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  3. 16 hours ago

    The Bahamas, of all places, is now closing air traffic from the US (but from nowhere else). It makes an exception for private jets....

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  4. Jul 19

    "Ninety five per cent of the US economy is suffering an R rate high enough to cause an exponential rise in the number of cases." America is probably heading for a second wave of lockdowns, which is bad news for the economy says Gavyn Davies.

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  5. Jul 19

    Closer November looms, clearer it becomes that a Trump defeat, however thumping, would not break the Republican fever. What follows will be a more organized Christian nativist party. Cotton, Pompeo, Hawley....There’s a talent pool of menace.

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  6. Jul 19

    Pompeo gave a speech last week in which he elevated two rights - property and religious liberty - above all others. His Christian nationalist presidential ambitions and confederate whitewashing pose a threat to the US republic. says . I agree.

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  7. Jul 18

    Most striking aspect is that Deborah Birx is a super-enabler of Trump’s worst instincts. She’s played the role of propagandist not scientist. Hard to forgive.

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  8. Jul 18

    The last thing Trump said about John Lewis was to link him with violent crime.

    Congressman John Lewis should spend more time on fixing and helping his district, which is in horrible shape and falling apart (not to......
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  9. Retweeted
    Jul 16

    Reminds me of that famous FDR speech about dishwashers and shower heads six months after Pearl Harbor.

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    Trump: So shower heads, you take a shower, the water doesn’t come out. You wanna wash your hands, the water doesn’t come out... Dishwashers you didn’t have any water... In most places of the country, water is not a problem. They don’t know what do with it. It’s called rain
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  10. Jul 16

    Though he’s half my age, I learned a lot from talking to , one of Hong Kong’s leading dissidents (now the correct word, sadly) and China’s reckless decision to end the city state’s ‘one country two systems’.

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  11. Retweeted
    Jul 16

    🚨 I've been waiting for Ruy Teixeira to write this piece a LONG time. Teixeira was the first to argue that demographic changes help Democrats. But he also believes a misinterpretation of his theory helped elect Trump. Here, he sets the record straight.

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  12. Jul 16

    "Ivanka has never had to find a job in her life. After graduating, she worked for her father. Then she set up a paternally-funded fashion line. Finally, she landed a job as senior White House advisor." Me on First Daughter's "find something new" job advice

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  13. Jul 15

    Freedom's just another word for no more IQ to lose

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    "You call me selfish for not wearing a mask? You're the one who's trying to force me [to wear] a medical procedure" Anti-mask activists rally at a restaurant in Florida - the state with nearly 300,000 cases of coronavirus
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  14. Jul 15

    Starting in 30 mins. I talk to one of Hong Kong's leading dissidents about the end of "one country two systems".

    🕗 It's not too late to sign-up for our 7/15 program on autonomy and democracy in with activist and founding chairperson + 's . Registration is free, and available worldwide ➔
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  15. Retweeted
    Jul 14

    ⚠️Wow. pulls international flights from website until MARCH 2021. Its CEO says that international flights to/from (except perhaps New Zealand) are unlikely to resume until JULY 2021.

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  16. Jul 14

    Trump is providing roughly a month's worth of material for Sarah Cooper.

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  17. Jul 14

    Even by Trump's standards, this is a deranged, incoherent, ramblingly nasty stream of consciousness. Don't see how he can critique Biden's syntax.

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  18. Jul 14

    Trump claims China's trade was flatlining before it joined WTO in 2001, which is nonsense: In the 1990s it globalised on a scale and speed never matched before or since.

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    Jul 14

    Me on "woke capitalism" and how lots of stuff which is touted as progressive - such as social media retribution, and corporate diversity training - is a hollow substitute for real (economic) change.

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  20. Jul 14

    Reminder that columnists quitting NYT only qualifies as news on Twitter. There's a world out there of broken healthcare systems, US-China cold war, tech monopolies, economic precariousness & malignant presidential clowns that is the job of journalists to cover.

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