| | | | On GPS at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET on CNN:
First, Fareed gives his take on what the UK's election says about 2020.
Britain's Labour Party collapsed as it veered left, Fareed says, while Prime Minister Boris Johnson was clear on Brexit and smartly promised increased spending to bring working-class voters into the fold.
A similar dynamic is unfolding in the US: "The Trump-Republican Party is now a coalition of free-market types and working-class populists," Fareed says, as Democrats move farther left on economics, shrink their appeal, and risk sharing Labour's fate. "The Republican Party, like the Tories, has become ideologically a bigger-tent party, while the Democrats—historically defined as a large coalition—are ideologically narrow on the issues that might well define the 2020 election," Fareed says.
Next, Fareed talks impeachment with a panel of historians: NYU's Timothy Naftali, former director of the Nixon Presidential Library; Annette Gordon-Reed, Harvard legal history professor and the author of Andrew Johnson, among other books on presidential history; and historian, biographer, and Time contributing editor Jon Meacham, who has written the introduction to a published edition of the House's Trump impeachment report. The three discuss historical standards of impeachment and what's different this time.
Then, our What in the World segment looks at India, a notable exception to the rule that voters follow the economy, as Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cultural agenda has helped him overcome his economic record.
After that, Fareed talks with Iranian journalist and activist-in-exile Masih Alinejad, who shares her thoughts on Iran's protest movement, where it's heading after the government's violent crackdown, and her own push to end Iran's compulsory hijab laws for women.
Finally, Fareed interviews Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee, a husband and wife who together won a Nobel Prize in economics for their research on development and poverty. The two discuss their win and their work; for more from Duflo and Banerjee, read their essay on global poverty in the current issue of Foreign Affairs. | | | | | | |
