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Checks and Balance newsletter: Which past is MAGA promising to revive?

Business

How hospitals inflate America’s giant health-care bill

Non-profit institutions are no help

The Americas

Will Donald Trump shape the Mexican president’s domestic agenda?

Claudia Sheinbaum has earned respect for her handling of Mr Trump

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Donald Trump has reshaped one of the world’s most important migration routes

Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, is an eager partner

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How Cuba competes with Uncle Sam in the Caribbean islands

President Donald Trump’s muscular diplomacy is floundering in the Caribbean

Middle East & Africa

America’s strikes on the Houthis could whip up a regional tempest

Donald Trump has promised to hold Iran accountable for the Yemenis’ attacks

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What a Christian theatre town can teach Trump’s Kennedy Centre

Anti-woke entertainment has draws and drawbacks

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Why America has not passed a law to treat addiction better

Methadone can help addicts. But many are loth to make it more easily available

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Donald Trump is testing more than America’s constitution

The country’s very idea of itself is under stress

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Cambridge yimbies

The home of Harvard and MIT embraces yimby-ism

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The American and Russian right are aligning

MAGA men are warming to anti-liberal ideas emanating from Moscow