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A look back at Brazil’s general election in October 2022 reveals just how precariously the world’s fifth-largest democracy stood on the brink of political turmoil. Throughout the race, then-President Jair Bolsonaro spread unfounded claims of election fraud and disseminated disinformation aimed at galvanizing his most extreme supporters. But while Bolsonaro’s rhetoric echoed that of former […]
If the United States was to experience a descent into political violence comparable to the Troubles in Northern Ireland, the results would be catastrophic. Between the late 1960s and the late 1990s, the conflict claimed 3,500 lives in a region with a population of about 1.5 million. Adjusted for population size, this would be the […]