Politics & Diplomacy

Leaders, envoys and dynasties — the people who drew borders, and the ones who broke them.

Entries in this category (3)

• Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. — The Brahmin senator and UN ambassador Kennedy sent to Saigon — the last of a Boston political dynasty, and the American in the room when Diem fell
• The Shinawatra Family — Four prime ministers from one Chiang Mai business house — a silk merchant's clan that won the votes of the rural poor, then lost power four times and kept coming back
• Thaksin Shinawatra — Thailand's telecoms billionaire prime minister, ousted by a coup in 2006 — who came home after 15 years, went back to prison in 2025, and was pardoned in 2026