My latest column is on US politics
Two months before the US midterm elections, Democrats are bracing themselves. Recent economic indicators have been grim and the poll numbers have been worse. A “wave election” like the rout of 1994 that reset the Clinton presidency is all but taken for granted.
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I have been the FT's Washington columnist since April 2007. I moved from Britain to the US in 2005 to write for the Atlantic Monthly and the National Journal after 20 years working at the Economist, most recently as deputy editor. I write mainly about the intersection of politics and economics.
