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It's a massive election year around the world too — and democracy may be losing
Salon via Yahoo News· 1 week agoThe nine nations V-Dem considers “stand-alone” democratizers (rather...misses” of democratization....
Bolsonaro Praises Musk at Rio Rally as His Legal Troubles Grow
Bloomberg via Yahoo News· 2 days ago(Bloomberg) -- Former Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro praised Elon Musk as a free-speech advocate,...
Brazil’s chief justice “turns the page” on military’s involvement in Bolsonaro coup attempt
World Socialist Web Site· 5 days agoOn April 6, the president of the Brazilian Supreme Court (STF), justice Luís Roberto Barroso,...
Despair makes young US men more conservative ahead of US election, poll shows By Reuters
Investing.com· 2 weeks agoOn average, the world became more liberal between 2014 and 2023, even as it became more pessimistic,...
Dutch aim to quarantine populism; rest of the world may follow suit
United Press International via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoIn legislatures across the European Union, politicians are erecting a "cordon sanitaire" against...
Why is Canada accusing India and Pakistan of election interference?
Al Jazeera· 2 weeks agoCanada’s main spy agency has accused India and Pakistan of trying to meddle in the country’s last...
Britain’s Sunak vows to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda in 10-12 weeks
Washington Post· 1 day agoBritish Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has staked his political survival on getting planes of asylum...
Quiz of The Week: 6 - 12 April
The Week· 2 weeks agoFar from being a fun bit of PR for the PM, what the shoe debacle really underlined is that "it's just over" for the Tories, as the party enters the final...
María Corino Machado Is Not a Martyr
The National Interest· 6 days agoMachado had to choose a replacement, eighty-year-old academic Corina Yoris, who herself was banned from running. Maduro is a brutal dictator who kills...
How Portugal has largely avoided racism and Islamophobia amid a migration boom
The Christian Science Monitor· 2 weeks agoAmong the warehouses of one of Portugal’s oldest ports, conversations are flowing among the men...