How effective is chaos as a political strategy? As the United States awakened to its first-ever destitution of a speaker of the House of Representatives, attention is turning to the eight members of the lower house who triggered Kevin McCarthy's downfall. We ask why the leader of the Republican majority in Congress seemed on borrowed time ever he was elected on the 15th ballot back in January. Will those pro-Trump loyalists be rewarded or punished for their hardline stance?
The overwhelming majority opted for compromise in last weekend’s budget deal, but already Donald Trump is blowing away the rest of the field in polls for his party's nomination next year – Trump, who regularly blasts institutions as well as judges presiding over his own trials. How vulnerable are those US institutions?
And what is the contingency plan for the rest of the world, if the world’s most powerful nation can no longer function domestically? It's not currently the case, but what happens next?
Produced by Alessandro Xenos, Juliette Laurain and Imen Melllaz.
