Checks and Balance: Well enough alone? - a podcast by The Economist

On foreign policy, trade and immigration, the Republican Party wants America to push the world away. This is a departure, but also a return to what the partyused to believe. How did the Republican Party go from isolationism to internationalism and then back again? And what does that mean forAmerica’s foreign policy?

John Prideaux hosts with Charlotte Howard and Idrees Kahloon. They’re joined by Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation, andThe Economist’s Edward Carr.

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