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Operation Take Down Bernie

Ruth Conniff The Progressive
Sanders’s socialism is scary for a Democratic establishment that worries a lot about electability. Cue the media hit pieces.

Roberto Gavaldón: Mexico’s Auteur of Noir

Will Noah New York Review of Books
The film series “Roberto Gavaldón: Night Falls in Mexico” at the Museum of Modern Art (NY) showcases the rarely screened signature achievement of the Western hemisphere’s second-most-robust film industry in the decades surrounding World War II.

Clashes Rock Venezuela as Guaido Urges Opposition Uprising

Scott Smith and Christopher Torchia AP
Violent street battles erupted in parts of Caracas in what was the most serious challenge yet to Maduro’s rule. Still, the rebellion, dubbed “Operation Freedom,” seemed to have garnered only limited military support.