For the far right, the pandemic is a chance to enact border controls and erode the rule of law. It could also expose their utter incompetence.
Regions / Brazil
Donald Trump says that impeachment is actually a coup. It's one more example of his attack on the rule of law.
From Brazil to India to the United States, extractive industries have aligned themselves with authoritarian governments waging war on minority populations.
The fires are no accident. They’re set by people turning a profit in a grocery store near you.
Far-right governments in the U.S., UK, and Brazil are laying bare their nihilistic roots and full destructive potential.
Under the far-right Bolsonaro, Brazil is abandoning its regional leadership to align with U.S. interests in Latin America.
Democracy faces a global crisis. And this crisis couldn’t be coming at a worse time.
The far-right leader’s flair for fascism recently included ordering a celebration of the coup that brought Brazil’s military dictatorship to power.
From Europe to the United States, creative coalitions of activists and scholars could break the right-wing wave unleashed by the failures of the more traditional liberal-neoconservative political class.
Brazil is on the verge of electing a Duterte-style fascist. What can the left do?