In the inaugural episode of our podcast Critical Conditions, we discuss India’s uneasy place between the US and China, Trump’s tariff war, the fragility of democracy, the Supreme Court’s indulgence of executive power, the Houthis and the Red Sea, rumors about Venezuela and Greenland, and the surreal spectacle of Trumpism.

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