Adam Tooze

Adam Tooze is a columnist at Foreign Policy and a history professor and the director of the European Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of Chartbook, a newsletter on economics, geopolitics, and history.

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Graduates in caps and gowns wave gavels and smile and yell outside a brick building.

Trump and the Business of Big Law

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
An illustration shows a golden Newtons cradle with Elon Musk depicted on the one at left and sending a globe-motif ball swinging at right.
An illustration shows a golden Newtons cradle with Elon Musk depicted on the one at left and sending a globe-motif ball swinging at right.

Elon Musk’s First Principles

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Adam Tooze
The cover of Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.
The cover of Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson.

Is ‘Supply-Side Liberalism’ Still Relevant?

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
Man sits at a desk with a hand covering his mouth. In the background are several television and computer screens. In the corner is a red hat with the word "Trump" on it.
Man sits at a desk with a hand covering his mouth. In the background are several television and computer screens. In the corner is a red hat with the word "Trump" on it.

Why Stock Markets Don’t Like Trade Wars

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
Diana Fox Carney and Mark Carney stand next to each other in a room full of people.
Diana Fox Carney and Mark Carney stand next to each other in a room full of people.

‘He’ll Make Mincemeat of the Second-Raters in the Trump Team’

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
Pedestrians sit at a bus shelter where an electronic billboard and a poster display the current U.S. national debt per person and as a nation, in Washington, D.C.
Pedestrians sit at a bus shelter where an electronic billboard and a poster display the current U.S. national debt per person and as a nation, in Washington, D.C.

Is the U.S. Facing a Debt Crisis?

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
The Torres Blancas building, designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza.
The Torres Blancas building, designed by Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza.

A Short History of Brutalist Architecture

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
A soldier in combat grear stands high above a quarry with blueish water in it.
A soldier in combat grear stands high above a quarry with blueish water in it.

‘An Extraordinary Act of Extortion’

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
A man walks past a billboard by vegan beverage-maker Oatly that reads: "Germany needs your vote," in Berlin.
A man walks past a billboard by vegan beverage-maker Oatly that reads: "Germany needs your vote," in Berlin.

Now That Trump Is Done With Europe, Will Germany Step Up?

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
A person's hand is visible as they hold a sign up in front of the marble columns of the U.S. Treasury Department beneath a pale gray sky. The sign is printed in bold text and says: "It's Musk or us. Whose side are you on?"
A person's hand is visible as they hold a sign up in front of the marble columns of the U.S. Treasury Department beneath a pale gray sky. The sign is printed in bold text and says: "It's Musk or us. Whose side are you on?"

Should We Worry About DOGE Controlling the U.S. Payment System?

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
An Ethiopian man stirs coffee inside a coffee shop in the northern Ethiopian city of Mekele.
An Ethiopian man stirs coffee inside a coffee shop in the northern Ethiopian city of Mekele.

A Brief History of Coffee and Colonialism

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
Commercial trucks cross the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge border crossing into the United States in Niagara Falls, Canada.
Commercial trucks cross the Lewiston-Queenston Bridge border crossing into the United States in Niagara Falls, Canada.

How Trump’s Tariff Policy Will Shape the World

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas.
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump and Elon Musk watch the launch of the sixth test flight of the SpaceX Starship rocket in Brownsville, Texas.

What Drives Elon Musk?

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
A Daily News newspaper in a rack with the headline: Fjord to Trump: Drop Dead with the subhead: Denmark mocks Don's desire to buy Greenland.
A Daily News newspaper in a rack with the headline: Fjord to Trump: Drop Dead with the subhead: Denmark mocks Don's desire to buy Greenland.

Can the United States Actually Purchase Greenland?

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
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A satellite view shows two large plumes of smoke extending from land south out to sea.

The Economics of Living on Earth

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Cameron Abadi, Adam Tooze
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