When Elected Leaders Pursue Risky Policies, What Can Stop Them?

When Elected Leaders Pursue Risky Policies, What Can Stop Them?

It has been a chaotic few weeks in geopolitics. At the beginning of the month, President Trump announced tariffs that threw the global economy into turmoil. Investors panicked, stock markets plunged, and analysts predicted an imminent recession. Mr. Trump insisted that he would not change course, even as trillions of …

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Trump’s Return Has Unnerved World Leaders. But Not India.

Trump’s Return Has Unnerved World Leaders. But Not India.

Over the past year, a pair of legal bombshells have put India’s growing relationship with the United States to one of its biggest tests yet. Just as the two sides were announcing unprecedented expansions in defense and technology ties, U.S. prosecutors accused Indian government agents of plotting to assassinate an …

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