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Saudi Arabia continues to be a mainstay of newspaper headlines, whether it be for its oil price war with Russia or for news about Turkish indictments in connection with the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. But making sense of Saudi Arabia\\u2019s de facto leader, Mohammed Bin Salman, known widely as MBS, can be a difficult proposition. He has made social reforms\\u2014lifting the ban on women driving and taking power away from Saudi Arabia\\u2019s infamous religious police\\u2014but he has no interest in political reform and has a propensity to take impulsive and remarkably violent action, both in the foreign policy space and toward perceived enemies within Saudi Arabia and beyond. Ben Hubbard, Beirut bureau chief for the New York Times, provides an account of the young prince\\u2019s rise and his early years in power in Saudi Arabia. Jacob Schulz talked with Hubbard about MBS\'s rise to power, his influence on domestic life in Saudi Arabia, his relationship to Jared Kushner and the Trump administration, and about the White House response to Khashoggi\\u2019s murder.\\xa0

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