Katie Couric spoke to the U.S. National Editor and columnist Edward Luce at the Financial Times about Elon Musk’s unprecedented power in the White House.  

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Senator Claude Malhuret on the End of American Democracy, speaking in the French Senate, Tuesday, March 4, 2025.   Mr. President, Mr. Prime Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen, Ministers, my dear colleagues. Europe is at a critical turning point in its history. The American shield is crumbling, Ukraine risks being abandoned, Russia strengthened. Washington has become […]

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Betrayal triggers the strongest emotions in all of us: rage, despair and the longing for revenge. Betrayals in high politics trigger much the same emotions as in private life. The resentment and bitterness that whole peoples can feel when they are betrayed decide what they are determined to avenge and what they are willing to […]

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The American constitutional order has been broken, and it’s not clear it can be recovered. Many are still in denial about it, and continue to report on political machinations, business as usual. But this is just muscle memory: journalists have beats and write the stories they are expected to write, and the great game of […]

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Among the many striking features of Trump’s appalling betrayal of Ukraine has been the gaucheness and utter naïveté of the Trump ‘team’s’ diplomacy. Perhaps Trump thinks it’s clever to break basic rules of effective negotiation, who knows. Watching the Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, meet the new US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio in Saudi Arabia […]

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