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The Brazilianization of the World - American Affairs Journal

The West’s involution finds its mirror image in the original coun­try of the future, the nation doomed forever to remain the country of the future, the one that never reaches its destination: Brazil. The Brazilianization of the world is our encounter with a future denied, and in which this frustration has become constitutive of our social reality. While the closing of historical horizons has often been a leftist, indeed Marxist, concern, the sense that things don’t work as they should is now widely shared across the political spectrum. Welcome to Brazil. Here the only people satisfied with their situation are financial elites and venal politicians. Everyone complains, but everyone shrugs their shoulders. This slow degradation of society is not so much a runaway train, but more of a jittery rollercoaster, occasionally holding out promise of ascent, yet never break­ing free from the tracks. We always come back to where we started, shaken and disoriented, haunted by what might have been...

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In the wake of corruption scandals, Brazil banned corporate donations to electoral campaigns. This is what happened.

Bolsonaro’s party accepts Brazil election after Trump calls vote ‘rigged’

Trump pushes unsubstantiated claims about Brazil's presidential vote but says he 'didn't take sides' in the race.

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The Great Realignment: Why the New Right Is Here to Stay

The re-election of Donald Trump has illustrated in spectacular fashion the extent to which politics all over the world is in a state of continual flux. Old political configurations and parties are under unprecedented strain, with new forces, particularly on the hard right, challenging the status quo everywhere. Rejecting stale analyses based on moralistic panics about 'populism' or social media, political commentator Steve Davies shows how we are going through a deep-seated process of realignment rooted in underlying structural trends. We are transitioning, he argues, from an era where the key political division was over the economic structure of society to one where the primary division is between a vision rooted in national identity and sovereignty, and an essentially post-national cosmopolitanism. This change upends the ideological and electoral alliances that have structured our political systems for decades. No-one who wishes to truly understand the crises currently roiling the political status quo can afford to miss this stunning panoramic analysis of how this process works and how it is playing out across the world, from the USA and Germany to Argentina and India, and beyond.

The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence

He's trampled on the rights of women, LGBTQ folks and the poor. Then there's the incompetence. Meet, quite possibly, the next president.

Smart infrastructure, techno-authoritarianism, and the threat to democracy in Brazil

This commentary examines how Brazil's smart city agenda enables techno-authoritarianism, drawing on eight years of fieldwork and policy and legal analysis. It focuses on the use of surveillance technologies and the influence of foreign and local tech companies in shaping urban governance through opaque, corporate-led policymaking. It discusses how smart infrastructures are deployed under the guise of innovation, often bypassing democratic processes and civic participation. These developments reflect a broader global trend of “technosolutionist urbanism,” where digital infrastructure is used to monitor, control, and commodify residents. The Brazilian case underscores the urgent need for a justice-based, transparent, and participatory framework for smart infrastructure governance, centering human rights and democratic accountability in the face of rising techno-authoritarianism.

Incumbent Lula is declared winner of Brazil's election as Bolsonaro rejects results

Bolsonaro quickly refused to concede defeat and asked for the election results to be annulled after an evening of chaos at some polling places that followed a last-minute decision to extend voting by two hours.

America’s Right-Wing Propaganda Problem Might Be Terminal - Dame Magazine

America’s descent into mass delusion isn’t happenstance. The demise of courageous journalism isn’t a happy accident. Its replacement with engagement-chasing infotainment and propaganda isn’t an error. It’s a global assault on reason and informed consensus, and corporations and authoritarian bullies like Donald Trump are both architects and benefactors. For decades, academics warned anybody who’d listen

As pesquisas para presidente na véspera do 2º turno — o que diziam em 2018, 2022 e o que mostram agora - BBC News Brasil

O cenário eleitoral mudou ao longo dos anos: Flávio Bolsonaro ocupa a primeira posição nas pesquisas de 2026, enquanto Lula era o favorito em 2022 e Jair Bolsonaro, em 2018. Confira a trajetória nos gráficos da reportagem.

Matthew Sheffield (@mattsheffield@mastodon.social)

🧵 As a former Republican consultant who left in 2015, I'm often asked why Trump and his minions are willingly destroying science, K12 education, universities, international organizations, public broadcasting, and social welfare institutions. There are many reasons, but the main ones are psychological rather than ideological. They struggle with abstract thinking and are afraid of the world...