Philip Jeffery

Over the past month, GOP governors have spurned their state legislatures’ attempts to intervene on a controversial social issue. South Dakota’s Kristi Noem, Arkansas’s Asa Hutchinson and most recently North Dakota’s Doug Burgum all declined to preserve female-only spaces or regulate the use of puberty-blocking drugs on children—perhaps recalling the business pressure Indiana, North Carolina and Georgia faced over “bathroom bills” and religious freedom protections.Few have followed this trend mor…

Last week, a slim majority of Peruvians voted Pedro Castillo, a rural school teacher, to be their next president. Castillo beat Keiko Fujimori, the daughter of the country’s former dictator, by about 50,000 votes. The country now waits for authorities to certify the results.Commentary here in the United States has tended to depict Peru’s election as a contest between bad and worse. Castillo, the latest in the Latin American “pink tide” of left-wing populist heads of state, has positioned himself…

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