Brazil is set to elect its new president in October. As tensions are heightened by Lula’s imprisonment, the recent assassination of councillor Marielle Franco and the stabbing of the ultra-right candidate, women are continuing to battle on the sidelines and are gaining ground in party politics and [...]

“We can all agree that religious terrorism is a cancer in our societies but what about state-terrorism?”

Rather than making a virtue out of the pursuit of calculated self-interest, profit maximisation and competition, this economy nurtures our capacity for solidarity, cooperation, reciprocity, mutual aid, altruism, caring, sharing, compassion and [...]

With their growing congregations, Evangelical churches across Latin America are working to increase their institutional presence, under the banner of conservative morals, opposing the legalisation of same-sex marriage, abortion and marijuana, [...]

Have we entered the era of populism and authoritarianism? Regardless of which continent you look at, there is no shortage of examples to stir pessimism. And yet there are less autocracies than three decades ago, and two thirds of the world’s people live in democratic [...]

Rebuilding citizen trust in political institutions will require both economic and political measures in a genuinely consultative context, rather than the usual top-down edicts from the government or benevolent gestures from the [...]