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Editorial: Though the far-right former president has been held accountable for overseeing the plot, supporters at home and abroad still rally to his cause

Four out of five members of Brazil’s supreme court have voted to convict the former president, Jair Bolsonaro, for plotting a military coup after losing the 2022 election to his left-wing rival, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. Bolsonaro has been sentenced to more than 27 years in prison, though his…

Indigenous groups and other minorities praise ‘breath of justice’ while US officials issue warnings of possible sanctions

World leaders, including Donald Trump, Barack Obama, Benjamin Netanyahu and Keir Starmer, expressed shock and condolences after Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA co-founder, was fatally shot. Messages emphasised free speech, democracy and the tragedy for his family.

Educator, activist, and founding member of the Association for Democratic Reforms, Jagdeep S Chhokar, died on Thursday morning after a heart attack. He was 80. 

Former president sought to ‘annihilate’ country’s democracy after losing 2022 election

Charlie Kirk, figurehead of the American far right, took a question at a 2023 event in Salt Lake City about the second amendment to the US constitution and gun-related deaths. He answered: “I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that…

Timing is everything. As I explain in my book Authoritarians in the Academy: How the Internationalization of Higher Education and… The post "Authoritarians in the Academy": The National Security Law and the Shuttering of Academic Freedom in Hong Kong appeared first on Reason.com.

World leaders warned of the harms of politically motivated violence after the assassination of right-wing activist and Trump ally Charlie Kirk.

The International IDEA’s survey of democratic markers finds US is offering ‘encouragement’ to populist leaders