On May 26, 2026, Senator Flávio Bolsonaro, then PL's pre-candidate for the presidency in Brazil, was at the White House. The trip was part of the pre-campaign that already used the theme of bilateral relations between the United States and Brazil as a flag, and it was precisely in such a context that a photographic record of Flávio and his brother Eduardo Bolsonaro, alongside President Donald Trump, was made

he Handmaid’s Tale in 1985, she created one of the most disturbing dystopias in contemporary literature. In Gilead, the United States is transformed into an authoritarian theocracy in which men concentrate political, economic, and religious power, while women are assigned roles determined by gender. Wives manage the household; Marthas serve; Handmaids reproduce. What is most disturbing, however, is not merely the regime’s violence. It is the way that violence is justified.

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...?

polarization has reached a point where even the defense of relatively elementary national interests is interpreted through the lens of ideological conflict. If Lula defends a particular international position, some people feel compelled to reject it simply because Lula was the one who defended it

Brazil has taken the first step toward issuing, for the first time, public debt securities in the Chinese financial market. Until now, Brazil's international bond issuances have been concentrated primarily in U.S. dollars and, more recently, in euros. Now, the government intends to access the Chinese capital market directly and raise funds in yuan, China's currency.

The tragedy of contemporary Brazil lies not only in political radicalization. It lies in the transformation of ignorance into collective identity, verbal violence into moral virtue, and ridicule into an ideological platform. The most radical wing of Bolsonarism has ceased to be merely a political movement, it has become a cultural phenomenon marked by the aestheticization of brutality and the glorification of stupidity.

The triple agenda in Asia and the Middle East signals precisely that Brazil does not seek to replace one pole with another, but rather to reduce the excessive concentration of its international insertion in a few partners, expanding its diplomatic, commercial, and technological room for maneuver. This is a common feature of the Lula administration’s foreign policy. Diversification, in this sense, is the formula to mitigate systemic risks

The Military Parade in Beijing should not be interpreted merely as a military demonstration, but as an act of strategic communication in the international arena. Xi Jinping used the event to reinforce three central messages: (1) the historical legitimacy of China as a victor of World War II; (2) the technological-military advances that place it in a position to rival the United States; (3) the consolidation of a cooperation axis with countries challenging the liberal int

In today’s global landscape, human tragedies are often narrated selectively. Lives from “distant” countries are usually left out of media and political focus, as philosopher Judith Butler pointed out when reflecting on the unequal attribution of “grievability” to victims. Only those who fit the dominant framework—“Western,” Christian, or strategically useful lives—are presented as worthy of compassion, while other deaths remain silenced.

With the recent passing of Pope Francis, the Catholic Church enters a historical turning point. As the leader of more than one billion faithful around the world, Francis marked his papacy with a notably progressive stance on issues that, for centuries, had been met with silence or denial by the ecclesiastical hierarchy. His death not only closes an era but also opens a period of uncertainty and internal disputes about the direction the Church will take

The new multipolar order, or what is understood as the beginning of multipolarity, has as one of its characteristics new arrangements in...