Rocky road | The path to the White House for Democrats runs, in part, through Trump country. Yet few of the candidates running for the party’s nomination have demonstrated much ability to win on the president’s territory. Only three of the major Democratic contenders hail from states Trump won in 2016, and most of those who’ve run for statewide office haven’t had to — or been able to — triumph where the president was strong, a Bloomberg analysis shows.
Mueller unveiled | Attorney General William Barr is planning to release his report on Robert Mueller’s probe into Trump in a matter of weeks, not months,
Chris Strohm reports. House Democrats want Barr to submit the full report by April 2, although it’s all but certain he won’t meet that deadline. Click
here for a list of significant inquiries related to Trump that have outlasted the special counsel’s investigation.
Brazilian breakdown | Three months into President Jair Bolsonaro’s term, voters, investors and some supporters are starting to doubt if he can deliver on pledges to kick-start the economy and crack down on crime. The former army captain has plummeted in opinion polls and antagonized key allies, and his cabinet looks at times like it may collapse.
Balkan ghosts | Two decades have passed since the war in Kosovo, but the country remains haunted by the thousands of victims mourned by still-grieving family members. Under pressure from the U.S. and the European Union, the leaders of Kosovo and Serbia are trying to reach a deal to mend relations and break a deadlock that has prevented them from integrating more closely with Europe. But as
Andrea Dudik reports, that could lead to the redrawing of borders as the legacy of the conflict lingers.
Rising star | Indonesia’s Sandiaga Uno has spent nearly $100 million of his private-equity fortune to defeat Joko Widodo in next month’s election, in what may be a down payment on his own presidential ambitions.
Karlis Salna reports that Uno was a political unknown just a few years ago. Now the vice-presidential nominee is on a ticket with former general Prabowo Subianto, campaigning to win over voters disgruntled by economic disparity.
And finally ... India is no stranger to powerful female politicians — former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi towered over the country’s politics for decades. But their success hasn't translated into a critical mass of women in parliament,
Shruti Srivastava reports. That could all change in next month’s election, with two regional parties introducing a quota system that’s likely to ease the way for reserving a third of seats in the 543-member lower house of parliament for women — a plan that’s been on hold for over two decades.
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