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One of the most serious claims contained in President Joe Biden’s speech last week about protecting democracy may well have gone unnoticed by many who have heard or read about it. In the speech, Biden noted, “What is remarkable about American democracy is this: just enough of us, on just …

One of the most serious claims contained in President Joe Biden’s speech last week about protecting democracy may well have gone unnoticed by many who have heard or read about it. In the speech, Biden noted, “What is remarkable about American democracy is this: just enough of us, on just …

On Friday (7), Jair Bolsonaro (PL) said he had received proposals to increase the number of STF (Federal Supreme Court) ministers. The measure, which would give the president, if reelected, the power to nominate more names to the court, profoundly altering its composition, will be evaluated after the elections, he …

The president of the Senate, Rodrigo Pacheco, participates this Thursday (29) in the opening session of a series of lectures for international guests who should follow the Brazilian elections next Sunday (2). On Friday (30), the foreign delegation will participate in a session in the Senate. The schedule for the …

posted on 07/18/2022 06:00 (credit: Stephanie Mitchell) In January 2018, nine months before the presidential elections in Brazil, the book How Democracies Die was first published to become a world bestseller. At the age of 54, Steven Levitsky — co-author of the work, with Daniel Ziblatt, and professor of government …

All professions have their private jokes. Among political scientists, “Francis Fukuyama” and “the end of history” is one of them. Whenever one puts these two sentences together, there is always intelligent laughter and the fatal sentence: “History ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall and then came 9/11.” The …