Comedy or Chocolate

This week, Loren, Radha, and Erin explore the world's many recent elections - in Israel, India, Indonesia, and Ukraine. They then return to Northern Ireland, not to talk about Brexit, but to unpack resurgent sectarian violence. The recent coup in Sudan rounds out a very sporty Keeping up Foreign Relations. Radha notes we're still waiting on a big trade summit with China before we dive headfirst into the Mueller report and speculate wildly on the ongoing counter-intelligence investigation(s). DoD remains opaque as ever, while DHS gets purged. Finally, a lively Pop Culture round-up to take our minds off all this mayhem.   Links Trade Enda Curran "," Washington Post, April 18, 2019 Jeff Cox, "," CNBC, April 17, 2019 DHS:  Ronald Brownstein, "," Atlantic, April 11, 2019 Sudan Nandita Balakrishnan, "," Washington Post, April 17, 2019 Mai Hassan and Ahmed Kodouda, "," Washington Post, April 15, 2019 Protests "," Washington Post, April 10, 2019 "," Washington Post, April 16, 2019 Election "," Foreign Policy, April 18, 2019 Arys Aditya, ," Bloomberg, April 20, 2019 Ilan Goldenberg, "," April 08, 2019 Northern Ireland "," BBC, April 19, 2019 "," Guardian, April 19, 2019 Ed O'Loughlin and Richard Perez-Pena, "," New York Times, April 19, 2019 Bonnie Weir, "" New York Review of Books, April 11, 2019 Mueller Benjamin Wittes, "," Lawfare, April 19, 2019 Joshua Geltzer and Ryan Goodman "," New York Times, April 19, 2019 Pop Culture Spencer Kornhaber, "," April 12, 2019 Andrew Dyce, "," Screen Rant, April 20, 2019