processes of democratic backsliding have been driven, to a significant extent, by democratically elected governments that exploit legal and constitutional vulnerabilities to weaken checks on the executive and reduce the conditions for genuinely free political competition. Therefore, democratic erosion begins at the ballot box. This does not mean that voting for conservative parties is equivalent to voting against democracy. Such a conclusion would be mistaken and political

The article asks, from an Aristotelian perspective, who the true “idiots” are: those who discuss politics or those who abstain. By revisiting the concepts of zoon politikon and idiótes, it argues that political participation is an essential part of citizenship. In light of more than 33 million abstentions in Brazil, it maintains that withdrawing from the polls does not eliminate the consequences of political decisions and that voting means assuming responsibility for the coll

Flávio Bolsonaro and Lula Face Each Other in the Second Round, Although Bolsonarism Won the Elections with a Majority in the Senate, Congress, and in 11 States... What Was Lost Was the Environment, Civil Rights, National Assets... and Brazil. By Re-Electing People Involved in the Banco Master Case and Others Under Investigation, Was This Really About Voting Against Corruption...?

Beijing is not merely building reactors. It is structuring an energy system capable of supporting artificial intelligence, advanced industry and technological autonomy, while reducing its economy’s exposure to the risks of international energy supply chains.