X’s chief troll is inciting a “censorship” moral panic in Brazil, undermining the democratically elected government’s efforts to squash far-right extremism.

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explained “How Democracies Die.” Then they decided to look even deeper.

Jair Bolsonaro returned to Brazil the same day Trump was indicted. The parallels are uncanny.

Democracies have the right to act in their own defense—even if that means some people temporarily have to go without tweeting.

After his supporters attacked government buildings in Brazil, calls are growing for Jair Bolsonaro to be extradited back home.

Politicians’ lives weren’t at risk, but the yellow-and-green swarm of government buildings on Sunday was the latest evidence that many Brazilians never cared much for democracy in the first place.

Brazil's losing presidential candidate might be ditching his wife and skipping Lula’s inauguration to hang out at Trump’s resort.

Moraes has kept a close eye on Jair Bolsonaro and helped ensure a peaceful transfer of power. But many analysts worry he's overstepped.

Lula won because the left and the center feared a second term for the extremist Jair Bolsonaro. But the right won Congress and the governorships. Sound like any place you know?

The candidate of the left has establishment backing for Sunday’s vote. But below the level of the presidency, signs are more ominous.

Jair Bolsonaro has already made it clear he will not accept defeat.

The authoritarian demagogue, who is lagging in polls ahead of October’s election, has been laying the groundwork for a threat to democracy that could make January 6 look tame.

The murders of Dom Phillips and Bruno Pereira highlight the vast gulf between Bolsonaro’s lawless and exploitative approach to the rain forest and his opponent’s proposed reforms.

Fox News’s chief wingnut has spent all week fawning over authoritarian President Jair Bolsonaro and making absurd, ignorant statements about the country.

His book on global crisis is less interested in plausible solutions than projecting a sheen of authority.

A study of strongmen misses deeper reasons for democratic collapse.

The Brazilian president is fomenting violence against native populations that are defending their land from mining and deforestation.

Many consider capitalist solutions to conservation to be démodé. But done right, they could spark the wealth transfer needed to save the world’s largest rain forest.

Right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro wants to preemptively undermine the results of the next election. Bannon is happy to help with that.

In theory, wealthy nations should pay to stop deforestation in Brazil. But Bolsonaro can’t be trusted to keep his end of the deal.