There’s a country where, unlike in Brazil, it is former conservative presidents who appear in court, are sentenced for embezzlement and go to prison. Where the right, far right and Protestant fundamentalists all feel betrayed by President Donald Trump. Where Trump seems to want to resolve a conflict that all his predecessors failed to end (including Barack Obama, though he won the Nobel peace (...) →

In a world where those who claim rationality do not behave rationally, witchcraft has come to seem powerfully symbolic. And defiantly female, a way to be heard together. →

Tunisia, with the first Arab Spring revolution, has presidential and parliamentary elections next year. They should be — but aren’t — about its most pressing problem, massive regional inequality. →

The European Union has rejected the League-M5S coalition’s 2019 budget plan as unrealistic. The government, which has no economic strategy, is unrepentant, and trying to please opposing bases. →