Commentary and Analysis

Bobby Ghosh, Susan Glasser, and James Harding join Ivo Daalder to discuss the week's top news stories.

Do victories for Lula in Brazil and fellow leftist leaders across Latin America represent a new “pink tide” sweeping the continent?

Lula's victory has set high expectations for Indigenous rights and environmental protections. Now he needs to deliver.

Misinformation is clouding Brazil's election. The challenge is determining what information is true—and who gets to decide, writes Nonresident Fellow Robert Muggah.

As the run-off vote looms at the end of October, the far-right’s misinformation machine is going into overdrive, writes Robert Muggah.

"Rumors, lies and misinformation played a decisive role in the first round, and they will play an even greater role in the second," writes Robert Muggah.

Jair Bolsonaro "has emboldened his boosters to distrust the polls and decry the electoral system, while making sure they’re packing heat," writes Robert Muggah.

With substantial increases in annual temperatures and extreme heat locked in, Latin American cities offer a glimpse of the future of climate change.

If the United States and China are competing over global public opinion, who’s winning, and where?

Robert Muggah explores how "a flourishing ecosystem of criminal groups is busy sacking the forest and rivers for cash and power" in the Peruvian Amazon.