We Decide: America At The Crossroads with Jenna Flanagan
This morning, the Guardian is reporting that President Trump has issued what he calls an "extreme warning" to Iran that it must agree to a peace deal or face devastation. The United Arab Emirates is reporting that a drone strike sparked a fire at a nuclear power plant and blamed Iran or its proxies.
Iran continues to link a real cease fire in Lebanon, where over the weekend Israel continued to conduct airstrikes killing several people including an Islamic Jihad commander and his 17 year-old daughter. Meanwhile, Aljazeera is reporting that there are growing breadlines in Gaza as Israel continues to restrict imports of fuel and flour despite last year's so-called ceasefire.
On Sunday, the New York Times reported that the World Health Organization, from which the United States has withdrawn, has declared that the spread of the deadly Ebola virus in the Congo and Uganda now constituted a global health emergency. "The scale of the outbreak could be far larger than has been detected and reported, the W.H.O. said in declaring a “public health emergency of international concern.” It added that there were “significant uncertainties” about the precise number of people infected and the “geographic spread", the New York Times reported.
Throughout the south this weekend, thousands gathered, including at the Edmund Pettus Bridge, in Selma Alabama, to protest the Supreme Court's demolishing of the 1965 Voting Rights Act which has prompted former Confederate states to delay elections so they can zero out entire districts that are currently represented by Black elected officials ahead of the 2026 Congressional midterms.
In the A Block today, we will discuss the state of peace negotiations between the US and Iran, Israel’s continued attacks on Lebanon and Gaza, and examine whether anything of substance came out of President Trump’s highly publicized trip to China last week. with We Decide political panel–David Levinthal, Washington DC correspondent and senior Editor at NOTUS, Egberto Willes, host of KPFT's Politics Done Right, and special guest Pauline Park, a political analyst and co-host of OutFM on WBAI filling in this week for Laura Jedeed.
In the B Block we’ll speak with We Decide contributing producer Ursula Ruedenberg of the Pacifica Network and Oleksiy Sorokin, the co-founder and deputy chief editor at the Kyiv Independent about the state of the war in Ukraine and what it’s like being an independent news source in one of the most dangerous places on earth.
In our C Block, we’ll listen back to We Decide producer Jesse Lent’s interview with Beirut-based journalist Michelle Eid, editor-in-chief of the digital magazine Al Rawiya about what life is like for residents of Lebanon living in the shadow of Israel’s war with Hezbollah.
In the D Block we’ll speak with Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, a constitutional law professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of the new book A Protest History of the United States about the far-reaching effects of the Supreme Court’s decision last month to substantially diminish the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act in the Louisiana V. Callais decision. This segment is part of our ongoing series on We Decide entitled Redistricting Jim Crow in which we explore the ongoing effects of the landmark decision on American democracy.
