🎙️ Podcast: Checks and balances turned into vendettas
A series of decisions made Brazil’s Congress look like a machine of political retaliation. But what paved the way for this situation, and how can the country move beyond it?
🎙️ Podcast: What needs repair in Brazil's public sector machine?
Brazil's special secretary for state transformation discusses the reform proposals coming from the lower house, and the Lula administration's approach.
Carlos Nobre, head of the Planetary Science Pavilion at COP30 in the Amazon, talks to us about the conference’s results, the climate emergency we are living through, and what Brazil can still do.
🎙️ Podcast: Supreme Court to Brazilians: “Follow the money”
After lawmakers repeatedly dodged court rulings on budget transparency, the Supreme Court now wants the public to know how to track congressional grants.
🎙️ Podcast: Who will be Brazil's next Supreme Court justice?
Justice Luís Roberto Barroso is retiring. We unpack how factors such as trust, political ties, and electoral considerations may guide President Lula’s next choice for the court.
🎙️ Podcast: Brazil's tax system fuels income inequality
Congress could advance an income tax reform seeking to make the notoriously complex Brazilian system more progressive. But just how unequal are taxes in Brazil?
Self-serving bills in Brazil’s Congress sparked a wave of street protests in major cities. How can we explain the disconnect between the population and its elected representatives?
The final stage of Jair Bolsonaro’s coup trial kicked off on September 2 in Brasília. How will the justices rule, and what will it mean for Brazil’s fragile democracy — and its powerful military?
US President Donald Trump's pressure on Brazil lays bare the importance of the country debating its safeguards for independence — not only in trade, but also in tech.
🇧🇷 🇺🇲 US tariffs: Brazil is negotiating with an “elected autocracy”
Professor Filipe Campante of Johns Hopkins sees little room for success in negotiations between Brazil and the US, as only the former is following the rule of law.
In this Explaining Brazil Plus episode, Lise Tupiassu of the Federal University of Pará gives us her on-the-ground perspective on what should be in the spotlight regarding COP30 in the Amazon
