What happens if Uncle Sam goes home? And, French politics with The Economist’s Sophie Pedder

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 StudiesAnd, French politics with The Economist’s Sophie PedderA 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”