"Sozinho em casa" - Daniel Oliveira

A reação de António Costa às boas sondagens dão-nos um cheirinho do que seria uma maioria absoluta do PS. De cada vez que elas sobem ele afasta-se do espírito da ‘geringonça’.

"Como explicar a escalada de poder da bancada evangélica?" - Magali do Nascimento Cunha

Consolida-se uma relação construída a partir da aproximação entre Bolsonaro e pastores neopentecostais

"PHANTOM DEMOCRACY: A PUZZLE AT THE HEART OF CHINESE POLITICS" - John Keane

The notion of a globally menacing ‘authoritarian China’ is too simplistic. Dig deeper, and you will find signs of local democratic experiments, thanks to its skittish rulers afraid of losing control

"O NOVO JEITO DE FAZER POLÍTICA DE BOLSONARO JÁ NAUFRAGOU" - João Filho

NUNCA EXISTIU um político eleito que tenha cumprido todas as expectativas oferecidas durante a eleição. É natural da política, mas Bolsonaro certamente levará o chamado “estelionato eleitoral” para um novo patamar. O presidente eleito justificou a nomeação de ministros envolvidos em denúncias afirmando que a “questão ideológica é mais grave do que a corrupção”. Sobre a nomeação de um réu no Supremo, debochou: “Eu também sou réu no Supremo. E daí?”

"PHANTOM DEMOCRACY: A PUZZLE AT THE HEART OF CHINESE POLITICS" - John Keane

The notion of a globally menacing ‘authoritarian China’ is too simplistic. Dig deeper, and you will find signs of local democratic experiments, thanks to its skittish rulers afraid of losing control

"Abriu-se a porteira da absoluta ingovernabilidade no Brasil, diz Paulo Arantes" - Rute Pina e Emilly Dulce

Filósofo marxista analisa eleição de Bolsonaro e fissuras do campo popular desde a ditadura militar de 1964

"National populism is unstoppable – and the left still doesn’t understand it" - Matthew Goodwiin

It’s not about immigration, the financial crisis, globalisation or inequality, but evidence of a broader, older social fragmentation

"Brazil’s Bolsonaro-Led Far Right Wins a Victory Far More Sweeping and Dangerous Than Anyone Predicted. Its Lessons Are Global." - Glenn Greenwald

FOR THE PAST THIRTY YEARS, Congressman Jair Bolsonaro was a fringe extremist in Brazilian politics, known mostly for outlandish, deliberately inflammatory quotes in which he paid homage to the most notorious torturers of the 1964-1985 military regime, constantly heralded the 1964 coup as a “defense of democracy,” told a female socialist colleague in Congress that she was too ugly to “deserve” his rape, announced that he’d rather learn that his son died in a car accident than was gay, and said he conceived a daughter after having four sons only due to a “moment of weakness.” (Last September, he used Google to translate a Brazilian epithet for LGBTs to, in essence, call me a faggot on Twitter).

"Trump Tries to Destroy the West" - David Leonhardt

The alliance between the United States and Western Europe has accomplished great things. It won two world wars in the first half of the 20th century. Then it expanded to include its former enemies and went on to win the Cold War, help spread democracy and build the highest living standards the world has ever known.

President Trump is trying to destroy that alliance.

"Could populism actually be good for democracy?" - James Miller

A wave of populist revolts has led many to lose faith in the wisdom of people power. But such eruptions are essential to the vitality of modern politics.

"Brasil: Democracia ou Nazifascimo" - Leonardo Boff

Nunca em nossa história fomos colocados diante de uma alternativa tão radical: o ex-capitão candidato à Presidência, Jair Bolsonaro se apresenta com todas as características do nazifascismo que vitimou milhões na Europa na Segunda Guerra Mundial e um outro de quem não se pode negar um espírito democrático, Fernando Haddad. Bolsonaro mesmo declarou que não se importa ser comparado a Hitler. Se ofenderia se o chamassem de gay.

Agradeço à Isabel do Carmo

"The Left Will Decide Poland’s Future" - Slawomir Sierakowski

Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party has long been the beneficiary of political infighting among the country's divided opposition parties. But with important local, national, and European elections approaching, an emerging star on the Polish left could soon mount a credible challenge to the country's populists.

"Justice or Democracy in Brazil?" - Jorge G. Castañeda

Brazilian authorities have banned former President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva from running for reelection, owing to a corruption conviction. Unfortunately, this strict interpretation of a statute Lula himself signed could open the way for an election result that ultimately subverts the rule of law – and takes democracy down with it.

Jeremy Corbyn with Yanis Varoufakis at the Edinburgh Book Festival, August 20, 2018

"A new authoritarian axis demands an international progressive front" - Bernie Sanders

There is a global struggle taking place of enormous consequence. Nothing less than the future of the planet – economically, socially and environmentally – is at stake.

"ESTE POVO PRETO, PERIFÉRICO, LGBT, DE MARIELLE FRANCO, COM MAIS MULHERES DO QUE NUNCA NA FRENTE" - Alexandra Lucas Coelho

Quem matou Marielle? A pergunta está por toda a parte, no Rio de Janeiro (e não só). A deputada carioca, negra, criada numa favela, prestes a casar com a mulher da sua vida quando foi executada, transformou-se no luto político do Brasil recente, e num grande símbolo de luta. Dezenas de mulheres emergem como candidatas, várias delas negras, de bairros pobres. Lésbicas, gays, bis, trans ganham força. Retratos de uma nova frente, no dia da independência do Brasil, a um mês de umas eleições decisivas.

"I Am Part of the Resistance, Inside the Trump Administration" - o artigo falado no mundo

The Times today is taking the rare step of publishing an anonymous Op-Ed essay. We have done so at the request of the author, a senior official in the Trump administration whose identity is known to us and whose job would be jeopardized by its disclosure. We believe publishing this essay anonymously is the only way to deliver an important perspective to our readers.

"Perguntar não ofende" - Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa responde a Daniel Oliveira

Entrevista

Assim vai a Europa! - "Italy and Hungary vow to work together on hardline approach to migrants"

Italy and Hungary, two fierce critics of European immigration policy, vowed on Tuesday to work together to pursue a new hardline approach to migrants searching for a new life inside the European Union.

"Migrants left for a better life. Now they fight for a better Romania" - Claudia Ciobanu

I’m not surprised that Romania’s diaspora took to the streets of Bucharest. But the regime and its brutal police clearly were