In this week’s Trend Lines podcast, WPR’s editor-in-chief Judah Grunstein, senior editor Frederick Deknatel, and associate editor Robbie Corey-Boulet discuss the implications of political violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, for U.S. soft power abroad. For the Report, Jan-Albert Hootsen talks with Peter Dörrie about the deadly violence targeting Mexico’s journalists and their new campaign to end it.

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Can a New Campaign to End Violence Against Mexico’s Journalists Get Results?

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Pakistan’s Sharif Won’t Go Quietly From the Political Scene After His Ouster

As Poland’s Populist Government Takes on the EU, Is It Fracturing at Home?

 

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