Never before in the annals of US politics has a top presidential adviser had more of an inside track for influencing the White House than Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Will this turn out to be a problem for Trump in the future? Name any major event over the course of Trump’s first year in office and you will undoubtedly find the doleful face of Jared Kushner lurking somewhere... 

Shaken by a corruption scandal that involves its President, South Korea might elect its own ‘Donald Trump’ in an overwhelming voter dissatisfaction with inequality, inefficiency and nepotism prominent in the nation’s social reality. In the aftermath of Brexit in the UK, the likely election of a right-wing candidate for President of Austria, and the stunning ascent of Donald Trump to...