Ideology

Bolsonaro and Lula are expected to contest next year's presidential election | REUTERS/Alamy Stock Photo

Neither Bolsonaro (the Madman) Nor Lula (the Thief). Is There Another Choice for Brazil?

There is less than a year until Brazilians deliver their verdict on President Jair ...

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Katerina Hatzikidi
The Frog and the Snake - by leonxxg

The Prince, the Frog and the Serpent: Brazilian Presidential Politics Since 1985

Brazilian presidential politics since 1985 is a parable of a feud between a Prince ...

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Ted G. Goertzel
Lula is to report on his shadow cabinet work October 8, it was announced

While Bolsonaro Is in Free Fall, Lula Installs His Own Shadow Cabinet in Brasília

The Brazilian Senatorial Committee investigating President Jair Bolsonaro’s management of the COVID-19 crisis describes ...

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Bolsonaro in the presidential Rolls Royce with children, during the Independence Day celebrations - Marcelo Camargo / ABr

For Threatening a Military Coup, Brazil’s Bolsonaro Should Be Impeached

Jair Bolsonaro stopped governing a while back. In three years, his government has inaugurated ...

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Philipp Lichterbeck
Image: Ueslei Marcelino Credit: Reuters.

The Deep Structure of Bolsonaro’s Brazil

Many writers and filmmakers claim artistic expression is more powerful at transmitting the tragedy ...

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Norman Madarasz
A soldier stands guard in front of the Brazilian national flag on Army Day in São Paulo. Miguel Schincariol/AFP

The Militarization of Brazil’s Government Shows the Country Never Transitioned to Full Democracy

When former paratrooper captain Jair Bolsonaro was inaugurated as president of the Brazilian Republic ...

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Maud Chirio
Body bags on Rio's Copacabana beach symbolize the victims of the pandemic. -Fernando Souza/dpa/Alamy

A Military Coup in Brazil is Unavoidable. Some Believe It Has Already Happened

Brazil, once the flagship of social democracy in Latin America, has become an international ...

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Frédéric Vandenberghe and Jaime Marques Pereira
Sneer, by Hirostoshi Ito, and the university students: using progressive camouflage, the left is transforming the students into consumers and the public servants into servants. CREDIT: SNEER_HIROTOSHI ITO-@ITOHIROTOSHI_2014

It Looks Like Revolution, But It’s Only Neoliberalism

The university professor in the middle of the authoritarian crusades of both the right ...

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Benamê Kamu Almudras
Southern Baptist women demonstrating against the faith's gender role doctrine in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2019. AP Photo/Julie Bennett

The Evangelicals Belief in the Gracious Submission of Wives to Their Husbands Is Quite Recent

Prominent evangelical leader Beth Moore, who announced in March 2021 that she was leaving ...

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Susan M. Shaw
A survey indicates that 57% of Brazil's population considers Lula's criminal convictions fair. | Cintia Erdens Paiva/Alamy Stock Photo

Incapable of Thinking, Brazilians Now Are Shaping Their Opinions According to Political Preferences

For some years now, Brazilians have got used to adjusting our opinions to fit ...

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Daniel Cerqueira