Bolsonaro is Living the American Dream: Retired in Florida and Posting on TikTok
Jair Bolsonaro greets people during the Turning Point USA event. Joe Raedle/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Between 2019 and 2022, Jair Bolsonaro governed a country with a population of almost 215 million people, but since losing Brazil’s presidential election to the Worker’s Party’s…
Two Years Ago This Brazilian Expert on the Far Right Predicted Their Insurrection
Supporters of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, stand on the roof of the National Congress.Eraldo Peres/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Two years and two days after the invasion of the US Capitol by pro-Trump insurrectionists, much of the world appeared to be astonished as…
A Law Signed by Bolsonaro Paved the Way for Authorities to Prosecute His Insurrectionists
Protesters, supporters of Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro, sit in front of police. Eraldo Peres/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.On Sunday, in Brazil’s version of the January 6 insurrection, thousands of supporters of defeated former President Jair Bolsonaro staged a coordinated assault against the…
Brazil Just Had Its January 6. It Wasn’t Hard to See It Coming.
Supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro clash with security forces. Joedson Alves/Anadolu Agency/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.RIO DE JANEIRO – On January 1, 2023, a photograph of newly inaugurated Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, walking up the access ramp to Palácio…
It Wasn’t Easy Watching Argentina Win
Messi during award ceremony after victory.Pedro Martins/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.I’ve lost count of how many times I was asked the same perfectly appropriate question as the final game of the 2022 World Cup approached: Who are you rooting for? After all,…
The World Made a Biodiversity Pact, And Of Course We Aren’t Part of It
The head table at the COP15 biodiversity conference in Montreal on December 15.Ryan Remiorz/AP This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Only two countries in the world have not joined the UN Convention on Biological Diversity: the Vatican and the US. Few have missed the Holy See, but…