Les Leopold Substack How the hell did we get to a place where we are worrying about fascism taking control in America? Let’s start with Trump getting elected twice. How did the Democrats lose to the most flawed candidate ever to run for president? After decades of job destruction abetted by the Democrats’ embrace of […]
In the span of thirty seconds, Paltrow said her progressive husband thought she was a Republican, referred to herself as “pretty centrist," then “completely independent,” then “I don’t feel anything right now.”
Peru’s presidential runoff is too close to call as ballots continue to be counted from Sunday’s election between Keiko Fujimori, daughter of former dictator Alberto Fujimori, and leftist lawmaker Roberto Sánchez. Peruvian election officials say final results could take up to a month to confirm.
Peruvian economist and public policy expert Gustavo Guerra-García Picasso says “democracy has been undermined” by Fujimori and her right-wing coalition, and that “reforms must be implemented quickly to restore a presidential system with checks and balances.”
We also speak with historian Greg Grandin, who situates the Peru election in a wider battle between right and left across Latin America — with the Trump administration conducting “an unprecedented program of aggression” against leftists.
Jake Johnson Common Dreams The Israeli military bombed Iran on Monday shortly after US President Donald Trump urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not to respond to an Iranian missile barrage, which came in retaliation for Israel’s earlier bombing of Beirut. “I am going to call Bibi right now and tell him not to retaliate,” Trump told Axios on Sunday, […]