Bangladesh Heads Into an Uncertain Future With a Reluctant Leader
A Nobel Peace Prize winner is now tasked with calming the violence. Plus: Economic frustration in US battleground states.
A man sells national flags along a street in Dhaka on Friday, a day after a new interim government was sworn in in Bangladesh.
Photographer: Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images
Bangladesh has a new leader, temporarily installed after weeks of demonstrations against the elected government. Today, Kai Schultz catches us up on what’s happened and the uncertainty to come. Plus: The economic realities in the states likely to decide the US presidential election. If this email was forwarded to you, click here to sign up .
In a violent and tumultuous week for Bangladesh, the government fell amid enormous protests, its leader fled the country in a helicopter, and the future became a whole lot darker for one of the world’s most important emerging markets.