Our Authoritarian Atrocity
Trump’s goal is blood-and-soil nationalism. The only choice is opposition.
Spring 2025
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Remembering Is Not Enough
I’m Still Here defies the far right’s attempts to redeem Brazil’s military dictatorship. But it suggests a tidier closure to the regime’s disappearances than many real families have experienced.
Parties and Movements
A roundtable discussion on the challenges that left-wing political formations face around the world.
A Crucial Test for Lula
The Landless Workers’ Movement aims to remind the Brazilian president that its needs remain—and that they are not necessarily compatible with the desires of agribusiness.
Lula’s Second Act
If the former Brazilian president returns to office this fall, the countries with the largest economies in the region will all be governed by left-wing leaders for the first time in history.
Belabored: Public Goods, Private Harms with Donald Cohen
Over the past several decades, the shift of public goods and services into the control of corporations has taken a toll on their quality, increased inequality, undermined labor and civil rights, and made government less accountable. How can we restore our ownership of the commons?
Brazil Turns on Bolsonaro
As the 2022 campaign nears, many of the myths that made Bolsonaro appealing have been washed away by the grim realization of what he has always been: a huckster, most notable for his abrasiveness and authoritarian posturing.
The Return of Lula
A Brazilian Supreme Court justice has tossed out criminal charges against the former president. His enduring relationship with working-class voters makes him a serious contender in next year’s election.
The Gramsci of the Brazilian Right
Once a major influence on Jair Bolsonaro, Olavo de Carvalho’s ambition is to establish a new right-wing, nationalist cultural hegemony in Brazil.
Authoritarian Governance Is Like a Virus
The COVID-19 crisis has given autocrats an excuse to expand and deepen their power—while making the spread of the pandemic worse.
Holy War: Latin America’s Far Right
Old arguments about morality, Christianity, and the essential correctness of postcolonial racial and social stratification have proven a tremendous asset to the reaction against the Pink Tide.
Agribusiness against the Amazon
The fires in the Amazon are within the historical average. That’s why we should worry.
Stop Eco-Apartheid: The Left’s Challenge in Bolsonaro’s Brazil
The horrors threatened by Brazil’s new president are compounded by a potential war on the Amazon. It is up to the left to build a coalition capable of overcoming it.
Hot & Bothered Podcast: What the Climate Doomsayers Get Wrong
Facing a deluge of doom-and-gloom reporting on the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Kate and Daniel get together to put things in perspective.
Antiprogressivism: A Specter Haunting the Americas
The fascistic Jair Bolsonaro nearly scraped a first-round victory in Brazil, an ominous sign both for the left and for the country’s democracy. But the values he espouses go far beyond Brazil, and it is up to the left to devise new alternatives.
