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Twisted Democracies
Weak governance has resulted in more chaotic politics, mediocre public policies, poor social and economic results, and citizenship
6 mayo, 2021
Pedro Castillo is an authoritarian left-wing populist without the charm or charisma of most populists. Keiko Fujimori is a recently incarcerated right-wing populist, the daughter of a former dictator who is serving a 25-year sentence for murder, kidnapping, and corruption. Together, Castillo and Fujimori received fewer than one in three votes in the recent first round of Peru’s presidential election. Yet one of them will be the next president.
This much is certain: whoever wins the runoff will have a hard time governing. Castillo’s Perú Libre party has only 37 of the 130 congressional seats. Fujimori’s Fuerza Popular has just 24. She might just manage to assemble a majority because three other rightist parties have 45 seats among them. But compromise and coalition-building are not what Peruvian politics is abou
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The Bud Shuster Highway, named after the former Pa., Republican who secured nearly $1 billion in earmarked funds in the 1980s and 1990s to build an 84-mile highway through his hometown of Altoona, Pa. (Nabil K. Mark/Centre Daily Times/MCT)
An Essential Ingredient for Getting Infrastructure Done: Pork It s been a decade since earmarks in congressional appropriations were mostly ended. A little pork-barrel spending could get Congress wheels turning again. Donald F. Kettl, Federalism Columnist | April 1, 2021 | Opinion
President Biden is boldly going where President Trump only tentatively went before: toward a large-scale plan to rebuild the nation s troubled infrastructure. Trump didn t get his program passed. If Biden is to have a chance, does he need to bring back good old-fashioned pork-barrel politics? There s a strong argument that a return to the era of earmarks is the only way to get the job done.
A lifetime achievement award will be presented to the American Jewish TV producer Norman Lear at this year’s Golden Globes ceremonies on Feb. 28, and it may be time to wonder whether Lear’s fierce optimism was fully deserved by the nation he has devoted himself to for almost a century.
Born in 1922, Lear was the presiding force behind such landmark sitcoms as “All in the Family,” “Sanford and Son,” “The Jeffersons,” “Good Times” and “Maude.”
The resolve that Lear showed in flying combat missions as a radio operator/gunner on B-17 Flying Fortress bombers during World War II was later expressed in broaching controversial racial and gender issues.