External Interests and Sovereignty: Lula’s Reelection and Latin American Geopolitics
Latin America is a region historically marked by political, economic, and institutional violence, where the development of democracy and sovereignty has emerged from grassroots struggles. However, thi...
Read »It Is Not Unprecedented, But It Is Also Not the Same: Big Tech, History, and the Limits of Our Political Imagination
In the column entitled “What If the End of Democracy Does Not Come from the People or the Government? Big Tech and the Capture of the American State”, referenced below, I argued that American Big Tech...
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Understanding Your VoteIn October 2026, more than 150 million Brazilians will go to the polls. They will elect a president, senators, federal deputies, governors, state deputies, and city councillors...
Read »The Problem of Agency in the Papal Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas
The Problem of Agency in the Papal Encyclical Magnifica HumanitasOn May 25, 2026, Pope Leo XIV published what was then the newest papal encyclical, entitled Magnifica Humanitas. The title in Latin is...
Read »Peru, Party Systems, and a Strange Case of Autocratization
Peru, Party Systems, and a Strange Case of AutocratizationIn previous columns (referenced below), we discussed some of the contemporary sources of autocratization around the world. We talked about the...
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