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...Four years later, McConnell railroaded the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett just days before the 2020 presidential election....
...I loved this delightful column from our Rome correspondent Amy Kazmin on how Italians are incorporating English words and phrases into their language, often giving them surprising new meanings....
...Amy Edmondson has won the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award for Right Kind of Wrong, about how to learn from failure and take better risks....
...Gideon Rachman responds Great note and great question Brooke. Actually, this week’s series of judgments has changed my view of the US Supreme Court for the better....
...Take our quiz — Amy Five more stories in the news 1....
...Additional contributions by Tee Zhuo, Emily Goldberg and Amy Bell...
...Amy Kazmin profiles Meloni in this piece, from her early years in Rome to the hard right populism that has brought her to the cusp of power....
...Need to know: the economy The effects of sanctions on the Russian economy are likely to be profound, but that is unlikely to divert Putin from his chosen course, writes Gideon Rachman, the FT’s chief foreign...
...frustration with Italy’s fractious political parties, and their pre-election political manoeuvring, could soon bring an end to his term as prime minister amid gathering storms on the economic front, write Amy...
...According to a Politico report, Justice Alito was joined by at least four other conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Amy Coney Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch — in siding with Mississippi and...
...Political disarray in the US creates an opportunity for China in the battle for global economic influence, writes Gideon Rachman....
...Dubai, Laura Pitel in Ankara, Valerie Hopkins in Budapest, Sebastian Payne and Michael Stott in London, Jude Webber in Mexico City, Bryan Harris in São Paulo, Henry Foy in Warsaw, Edward White in Seoul, Amy...
...(FT) Podcast of the day The best and worst of 2020 Gideon Rachman talks to Roula Khalaf, FT editor, and Martin Wolf, chief economics commentator, about the extraordinary events of 2020, including Covid...
...The reason that the deal will be done on the EU’s terms is the same reason why the whole Brexit process has been so painful for Britain — a fundamental asymmetry in power between the two sides, writes Gideon...
...My colleague Gideon Rachman had an excellent column on the dangers of Biden’s withdrawal from Afghanistan — a move that could result in tragedy. Sadly Gideon is right....
...But the unseemly rush to get an ultra-conservative new justice, Amy Coney Barrett, appointed to the court before the vote risks making the country’s highest judicial body look like just another instrument...
...In The Revenge of Power (St Martin’s Press, February) Moisés Naím argues that autocrats are reinventing politics, while in The Age of the Strongman (Bodley Head, April), Gideon Rachman, the FT’s chief foreign...
...Ms Collins trails her Democratic challenger, Sara Gideon, by a 4.2-point margin, according to the Real Clear Politics average....
...She trails Ms Gideon by six points in the Real Clear Politics average....
...US editor-at-large Gillian Tett, chief foreign affairs columnist Gideon Rachman and science editor Clive Cookson have the answers....
...Republican Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell handily won re-election in Kentucky, defeating his Democratic challenger Amy McGrath, a former Marine fighter pilot....
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...(FT) How many Republican senators voted against confirming Amy Coney Barrett, Donald Trump’s third nominee to the US Supreme Court: None, one or three? Take our quiz....
...He joins Gideon Rachman to talk about how Joe Biden may seek to rebuild the US’s broken alliances and project a new image to the world....
...In the news Barrett confirmed to Supreme Court Amy Coney Barrett has been confirmed by the US Senate, with just one Republican crossing the aisle to vote against Donald Trump’s third Supreme Court justice...
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