Between The Lines - Abc Radio National

Uncle Sam: homeward bound? From Donald Trump to Bernie Sanders, a growing chorus of voices in the US is calling for a strategy of global retrenchment. But what will long-time allies like Australia do if Uncle Sam goes home? Thomas Wright, director of the Centre on the United States and Europe at the Brookings Institution and non-resident fellow at Lowy Institute in Sydney. Doug Bandow, senior fellow at the Cato Institute, former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan, scholar-in-residence at the Centre for Independent Studies And, French politics with The Economist’s Sophie Pedder A sex scandal and Macron’s ‘Russia reset’. The Economist’s Sophie Pedder with the latest from the City of Light. Sophie Pedder, Paris bureau chief, The Economist. Author of “Revolution Française: Emmanuel Macron and the Quest to Reinvent a Nation”