The writer is the author of ‘Uncharted: How to Navigate the Future’ I have recently started hearing a new complaint from employers: that their workers are not free thinkers. One said the highly educated graduates they hired from top universities were “well-credentialed and present effectively” and “excellent at taking instruction”. But the employer was concerned: … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The US-China trade war has escalated to new heights. This week Donald Trump focused his protectionist zeal firmly on his longtime economic foe. On Wednesday, the US president paused “reciprocal” tariffs — above a 10 … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Two millennia ago, the Roman poet Decimus Junius Juvenalis (“Juvenal”) decried the political phenomenon of “bread and circuses”. Back in AD100, the Roman empire was crushed by so much debt and income inequality … Read more
This article is an on-site version of Free Lunch newsletter. Premium subscribers can sign up here to get the newsletter delivered every Thursday and Sunday. Standard subscribers can upgrade to Premium here, or explore all FT newsletters Welcome back. Now that Donald Trump has paused his “reciprocal” tariff plans (as predicted in last week’s newsletter), … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace There has been justified concern this month that the chaos unleashed on financial markets around the world by the Trump administration’s “liberation … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a director and screenwriter In 2014, I directed the BBC adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, both winners of the Booker Prize. In 2023, I shot The Mirror … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Bit by bit, one by one, they started to come out. After days of market mayhem, America’s billionaires finally did something this week that few top bosses have done since Donald Trump took … Read more
Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The tariffs ruckus of the past week has etched extra frown lines on foreheads. For those who like to use “injectable aesthetics” to smooth out their crows’ feet — for which read Botox and similar … Read more
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world America under Donald Trump is an emerging market. That’s my takeaway from the last few days of tariff chaos and its fallout. When I first raised this idea last October, I pointed out that … Read more
