Brooke Sample, Columnist

The World That Was America’s Is No More. Maybe That’s OK

How will the pieces of a broken global order be put back together after Trump?

April 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM UTC

Brooke Sample is an editor for Bloomberg Opinion and member of the editorial board. She was previously an editor at Metal Bulletin, Bauer Media Group and the Virginian-Pilot.

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