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Brazil's electorate is sorting itself along lines Americans would recognize.
Brazil votes in the closest race in its democratic history. Three leading pollsters cannot agree on who is ahead. Turnout and a possible far-right surge will settle what they could not.
Chatbots mostly get Brazil's election facts right but still cast doubt on its voting machines. The electoral court sees little reason to worry.
Professors Dalson Figueiredo and Ernani Carvalho explain why polls show such different numbers on the same issues.
Voters aged 60 and over now account for nearly a quarter of Brazil's registered electorate. Polls also show they are more engaged than younger voters.
New research argues that the spatial distance between rich and poor neighborhoods does not merely mirror inequality. It quietly drains city halls of revenue, bureaucratic quality, and the consent that makes taxation work.
The country's flagship education index rose across the board in August. Look inside the arithmetic and the recovery starts to look thinner.
Brazil didn't ban foie gras so much as it banned the way foie gras is made.
The number of cachaça producers is at an all-time high, but declared output fell by 16%, and exports remain a rounding error in the global spirits market.
A stray line from Lula about the Paraguayan War led Asunción to summon the Brazilian ambassador. The history behind it is less flattering to both countries than either likes to admit.
Mario Esper, Brazil's top standards official and Mercosur's first technical envoy to Europe, on the quiet war over who writes the rules
Personal finance may soon reach every Brazilian classroom — a slow but crucial fix for a country where most adults are already behind on their bills.
In Latin America, heritage is as likely to be sung, spoken or remembered as it is to be carved — and that fragility is the point.
Brazil just crossed 90% internet use for the first time.
The US has branded Brazil's largest criminal organizations as terrorist groups. A former investigator cautions against drawing a straight line from them to Mexico's cartels or Italy's mafia — the comparison, he says, is far from perfect.
Before he was president, Fernando Henrique Cardoso was arguably Brazil's sharpest sociologist.
As the US targets Brazil’s ubiquitous instant payment system, everyone wants to claim Pix as its own. Here’s how and why it was created
A new state-run streaming platform seeks to boost Brazil’s cinema industry, which has for years been crowded out by foreign players.
Brazil's improved HDI scores are a reason for celebration, but they still mask the country’s vast inequalities and vulnerabilities.
How much economic results will weigh on government approval ratings is among the key questions ahead of this year’s presidential election in Brazil.
Much maligned by the conspiratorial far right, Brazil’s electronic system has completed 30 years without any credible allegations of fraud.
Amid changing geopolitical conditions, Brazil has altered its approach to the defense industry. We explain how.
Brazil’s largest media group is no longer the absolute leader it once was. It is still a gigantic powerhouse.
We bring today an op-ed by lawyer Welber Barral on a Supreme Court case concerning Brazil's notion of secularism.
A pair of pro-Bolsonaro productions serve as the latest example of Brazilian politics using the medium of cinema for campaign gains.
