basket-case

When Fujimori took office in 1990, Peru was Latin America’s basket case.

Our nation may not be a basket case on the verge of state failure—the impression you would get from listening to the apocalyptic rhetoric at a Trump rally—but it is still a country with many serious problems that demand innovative policy solutions.

For years, Scottish football used to look at managerial merry-go-rounds in English football and decry it as a basket case environment, Now, it’s every bit as volatile in this country, if not worse.

So when her voice catches talking about that moment in “Tuesday,” I flash back to a few recent lump-in-the-throat moments in her podcast, like the time she was a “basket case” interviewing Bonnie Raitt, describing her music as “holy.”

And Jeremy Jordan’s Gatsby is an adorably panicked basket case, second-guessing in charming comic song his plan to ambush Eva Noblezada’s Daisy with a reunion.