When the young socialist Zohran Mamdani won the mayoralty of New York last year, a revolutionary hope swept through the left wing of the Democratic Party. With a close and charismatic style, a message that put the pocket at the center, and a viral campaign on social media, the assemblyman went from being a complete unknown to the beacon of progressivism in the United States in just a few months. His victory against the candidate supported by the party establishment, former governor Andrew Cuomo, who received eleven times more money in donations, was then interpreted as a national singularity, one that could not be replicated beyond the progressive stronghold in a country where, a year earlier, the far-right Donald Trump had won the presidential election by winning the popular vote and in all the competitive battleground states.

If it weren’t because it’s real, because that happens in the Oval Office of the White House, in the so-called Resolution Desk (the resolution desk, where orders to bomb anyone are signed), the image illustrating this article would seem taken from one of those screwball comedies with canned laughter so typical of American television.

The Romanian Minister of Defense, Radu Miruta, reported this Sunday that two Spanish fighter jets deployed on the NATO mission intercepted an unidentified drone after it violated Romanian airspace during a surveillance patrol.

Fifteen days after 80,000 young people swam across the border separating Morocco from Ceuta, the origin of the incident remains shrouded in the fog that defines the relations between Spain and the African neighbor. Jean Raspail published The Camp of the Saints in 1973. In the novel, a…