Britain’s decision to leave the European Union in 2016 was sold to voters as a magic bullet that would revitalize the country’s economy. Its impact is still reverberating.
The Trump administration has started purging the government’s digital memory. Democracies die without proper archiving and public records.
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Ursula von der Leyen is trying to ensure that if the international trading system is remade, the E.U. is at the center of what comes next.