{"id":94594,"date":"2026-10-26T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/why-the-us-midterms-matter-for-europe-ft-shorts\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T14:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T14:44:01","slug":"why-the-us-midterms-matter-for-europe-ft-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/why-the-us-midterms-matter-for-europe-ft-shorts\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the US midterms matter for Europe | FT #shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Americans prepare to vote in midterm elections on November 3, the FT\u2019s chief economics commentator Martin Wolf asks what <!--more--> the result will mean for Donald Trump, the future of US democracy and America\u2019s place in the world.\u2060<br \/>\n\u2060<br \/>\nIn the second of a six-part series of interviews with leading historians and political analysts, Martin speaks to Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and author Anne Applebaum about the global stakes in November\u2019s elections. They discuss the parallels between Trump\u2019s America and other authoritarian regimes and what the country\u2019s changing role means for Europe and Ukraine.\u2060<br \/>\n\u2060<br \/>\nFollow the link to listen to the full episode. \u2060<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/bdfebbea-061d-48cb-b95e-d0e4698e91b7?syn-25a6b1a6=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/bdfebbea-061d-48cb-b95e-d0e4698e91b7?syn-25a6b1a6=1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Enjoying FT content? Get a daily slice of the very best FT journalism with FT Edit. Free for 30 days then just \u00a34.99 a month<\/p>\n<p>See if you get the FT for free as a student (<a href=\"http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/ft.com\/schoolsarefree<\/a>) or start a \u00a31 trial: <a href=\"https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/subs.ft.com\/spa3_trial?segmentId=3d4ba81b-96bb-cef0-9ece-29efd6ef2132.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u25ba Check out our Community tab for more stories: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>@FinancialTimes\/community<br \/>\n\u25ba  Listen to our podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.ft.com\/podcasts<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/financialtimes<\/a><br \/>\n\u25ba  Follow us on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/<\/a>@financialtimes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Americans prepare to vote in midterm elections on November 3, the FT\u2019s chief economics commentator Martin Wolf asks what<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":94609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}