We’ll be right over here: Europe’s populists sour on Trump

We’ll be right over here: Europe’s populists sour on Trump

Many of the continent’s populist-right leaders once saw President Donald Trump as an example-setting fellow traveller. But his actions and policies on Venezuela, Greenland and Canada have them pulling back. Dating apps from the West failed to make inroads in India; now the country has its own crop of them. And scientific spying in the jungle reveals where predators hunt.


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