
I’m Still Here: a powerful story of the human spirit under dictatorship
This Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of Brazil’s missing dissident former congressman.
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This Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of Brazil’s missing dissident former congressman.
By David SextonAfter decades meting out sanctions and financial coercion, the US may soon feel its grip on world trade beginning to…
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Platforms are failing to prevent online radicalisation and organised assaults on democracy. More violence is inevitable.
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By Jeremy CliffeThe author of the Goldsmiths Prize-shortlisted novel “there are more things” on revolutionary politics, Margery Kempe and cannibalising colonisers.
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By Ido VockThe influential essayist and moss scientist on what nature can teach us about survival.
By India BourkeJair Bolsonaro’s rule has been disastrous for the Amazon. But the remote communities who live there are gaining ground.
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By Jeremy CliffeThe race to be the next president of Latin America’s biggest country could hardly be more polarised.
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By Oliver Stuenkel