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    Trumpeting the past? The Bible has conflicting narratives over the conquest of Canaan. Wikimedia Commons

    The Bible As a Model to Tell America’s History: Warts and All

    At a time when Americans are seemingly as polarized as ever over the present, ...

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    Mark K. George
    Commodities on the move on the completed southern section of the BR-163 Highway - Roosevelt Pinheiro / Agência Brasil

    For the Military, the Brazilian Indian Is a Savage and an Obstacle to Progress

    The media portrayal of Brazil’s annual fire season — which in 2020 is trending ...

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    Peter Speetjens
    Brazilians often can't distinguish between fact and fiction

    In Brazil, History and Story Are the Same and Fake News Isn’t Fake

    Fake news is the big news these days. We are being warned how pernicious ...

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    B. Michael Rubin
    Firefighters try to extinguish the fire on Rio's National Museum - Tânia Rêgo/ABr

    Rio’s National Museum: 200 Years of Brazilian Memory, Culture Devoured by Neglect and Fire

    A massive fire raced through Brazil’s 200-year-old National Museum in Rio de Janeiro on ...

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    National Museum, Rio, King John VI, Michel Temer, 1818, memory, history, human fossil
    Raining in São Paulo - Fernanda Carvalho/Fotos Públicas

    In Brazil, Left and Right Are Lost in the Labyrinth of History

    In today’s Brazil, everything is as it seems. The belly of politics has been ...

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    Juliano Fiori

    Brazil: President Vargas’s Most Enduring Legacy Is His Xenophobic Nationalism

    The ideology of nationalism has been Brazil’s most pervasive ideology since the first presidency ...

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    Augusto Zimmermann