In this week's Trend Lines podcast, WPR's editor-in-chief, Judah Grunstein, managing editor, Frederick Deknatel, and associate editor, Omar H. Rahman, discuss American foreign and trade policies in Asia. For the Report, Paul Imison talks with WPR's senior editor, Robbie Corey-Boulet, about Mexico's upcoming presidential election. Mexican voters are clearly seeking a change, but the legacies of corruption and a weak rule of law will be hard to overcome.

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Relevant Articles on WPR:

• Mexicans Want a 'Change Election.' Can the Political Class Deliver?
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• Japan's Abe Is Trying to Make 'America First' Work for Tokyo. So Far, It's Been a Struggle
• Iraq Is Still the Key to U.S. Efforts to Stabilize the Arab World
• As the U.S. and Russia Spar Over Syria, China Sits Strategically on the Sidelines

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