An article from the New Yorker highlights how Dame Jacinda Ardern’s Covid-19 policies polarized New Zealand, leading her to “vanish from public life” in her homeland. The piece notes that nearly half of her book, A Different Kind of Power, focuses on her life before Parliament and the initial enthusiasm surrounding her leadership, contrasting domestic perception with international views. Ardern’s radical approach included one of the world’s strictest lockdowns and border closures to eliminate Covid-19.
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