published Dec 28th 2016, 5:07 pm, by David Tweed (Bloomberg) —In a year dominated by Brexit and Donald Trump’s surprise U.S. election win, Asia felt like a relatively stable part of the world. A closer look shows that the region endured its own seismic events in 2016, from a Philippine

©2015 Bloomberg View NYNHE66JTSEB (Bloomberg View) — Donald Trump is unique. But he’s not without antecedents, and it’s not hard to locate his performance in some well-worn grooves of American politics. Substitute the word “segregation” for “immigration” in Trump’s rhetoric, for instance, and it recalls the bitter bite of Alabama’s