U.K. | Watching America

Austria: Maybe Trump’s Tariff Bludgeon Was Good for Something after All

Mallory Matsumoto - May 20, 2025. Published in Die Presse

U.K.: The Guardian View on the IMF’s Warning: Donald Trump Could Cost the World a Trillion Dollars

Lalatendu Das - April 22, 2025. Published in The Guardian

The U.S. president’s economic agenda collides with fragile financial systems, triggering market fears, investor flight and developing nation chaos.

U.K.: The Guardian View on Donald Trump’s Industrial Policy: Inward Turn by Ultimatum

Lalatendu Das - April 17, 2025. Published in The Guardian

The U.S. is retreating behind chokepoints and tariffs. It remains determined to invent the future but is struggling to ensure its control.

U.K.: The Guardian View on the US Immigration Crackdown: What Began with Foreign Nationals Won’t End There

Lalatendu Das - April 9, 2025. Published in The Guardian

The Trump administration is deliberately fomenting fear through the deportations and arrests.

U.K.: The Guardian View on Trump’s Tariffs: A Monstrous and Momentous Act of Folly

Lalatendu Das - April 5, 2025. Published in The Guardian

The U.S. president has expelled his own country from the rules-based global trade system that America itself created.

U.K.: The Guardian View on Donald Trump’s Tariffs: a Spectacle of Struggle and Control

Lalatendu Das - April 3, 2025. Published in The Guardian

The U.S. president wields tariffs not as a policy tool but as an instrument of pressure.

U.K.: The Guardian View on Attacks on Lawyers: Democracies Must Stand up for Justice

Lalatendu Das - April 1, 2025. Published in The Guardian

The Trump administration turns on lawyers and judges as part of its broader assault on the institutions of U.S. democracy.

U.K.: The Guardian View on Trump and Reality: from Promoting Alternative Facts To Erasing Truths

Lalatendu Das - March 30, 2025. Published in The Guardian

The decision to put documents on the assassination of John F Kennedy into the public domain comes alongside a ‘digital book burning’ of data.

U.K.: Donald Trump: the President Making Anywhere but America Great Again

Lalatendu Das - March 18, 2025. Published in The Guardian

The U.S. stock market is spooked and this henchmogul’s companies are floundering. Has the great dealmaker been building up … the wrong nation?

U.K.: The Observer View on the Proposed Ukraine Deal: Kyiv’s Allies Must Not Fall into Putin’s Trap

Lalatendu Das - March 16, 2025. Published in The Guardian

While Donald Trump has no plan beyond halting the gunfire, Russia’s leader does. Peace at any price is no peace at all.

U.K.: The Guardian View on Trump and Ukraine: Respite Is Possible, but Resolution Looks Distant

Lalatendu Das - March 14, 2025. Published in The Guardian

Will-they-won’t-they over a cease-fire does not change the underlying dynamics of U.S. retreat from supporting Kyiv.

U.K.: The Guardian View on Trump and Media: Attention Is Power. Can Democrats Grab It?

Lalatendu Das - March 10, 2025. Published in The Guardian

The presidency is no longer just a ‘bully pulpit’. It’s become part of the disinformation machine.

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