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Who Can Save the Amazon?

Brazil’s President, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, promises to keep miners and loggers from destroying the rain forest. On the ground, the fight is complicated.
Dispatch

Cleaning Up After the Bolsonaristas in Brasília

President Lula’s government spent the week reassuring Brazilians that the threat of a coup had been contained.
Daily Comment

The Future of the Amazon, and Maybe the Planet, Depends on Brazil’s President-Elect Lula

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva speaks out about deforestation and the weakness of global institutions before his speech at the COP27 climate summit.
Daily Comment

After Two Tense Days in Brazil, the Path Is Clearing for Lula’s Comeback

The once and future President ekes out a win, but now has to repair the damage of the Bolsonaro years.
Annals of Inquiry

The Last Member of an Uncontacted Tribe

He lived alone in the forest for twenty-six years before dying last month. What did he experience?
Daily Comment

Two Murders in the Amazon

The disappearance of Dom Phillips and Bruno Araújo Pereira, and the crisis created by Jair Bolsonaro’s policies.
Profiles

How Caetano Veloso Revolutionized Brazil’s Sound and Spirit

The musician’s political persecution pushed him into a career he was never sure he wanted.
Q. & A.

Redefining Populism

A political philosopher offers a new way of looking at Donald Trump, Narendra Modi, Jair Bolsonaro, and other right-wing leaders.
Daily Comment

Brazil’s COVID-19 Crisis and Jair Bolsonaro’s Presidential Chaos

Is the President’s do-nothing approach to the pandemic finally becoming a threat to his political future?
Cultural Comment

Trump, the Coronavirus, and What Happens When Strongmen Fall Ill

The President’s claims of a miraculous recovery from COVID-19 are the latest in a tradition of authoritarian leaders who have used their virility and medical crises to manipulate public sympathies.
A Reporter at Large

Why Facebook Can’t Fix Itself

The platform is overrun with hate speech and disinformation. Does it actually want to solve the problem?
News Desk

How Jair Bolsonaro and the Coronavirus Put Brazil’s Systemic Racism on Display

As the country’s infection rates have risen, a clearer picture has emerged of whose lives the President apparently deems disposable.
Daily Comment

The Coronavirus Hits Brazil Hard, but Jair Bolsonaro Is Unrepentant

As the nation’s rates of infection and mortality continue to climb, the President is behaving with absolute and deterministic irresponsibility.
Q. & A.

The Coronavirus Crisis in Bolsonaro’s Brazil

The Brazilian journalist Sergio Davila discusses whether Jair Bolsonaro’s political opponents can use his handling of the coronavirus crisis against him, and how the Brazilian President has been able to continue his war on the rain forest despite the pandemic.
Daily Comment

In Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, Trump’s Close Ally, Dangerously Downplays the Coronavirus Risk

Bolsonaro has not only refused to take national action to prevent widespread contagion but launched an official campaign, #BrazilCannotStop, encouraging Brazilians to carry on with their normal lives.
Q. & A.

Glenn Greenwald on Brazil’s Charges Against Him

“What a lot of people are not fully understanding about Brazil is that there are a lot of people in the government, beginning with the President himself, who explicitly want a resurrection of the military dictatorship,” Greenwald said. “They are not joking about it.”
Culture Desk

The Fracturing of Brazil in “The Edge of Democracy”

Petra Costa’s documentary presents a great ongoing drama of our time: the breaking of democracy and its replacement by rank populism.
Letter from the Amazon

Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest

Indigenous people and illegal miners are engaged in a fight that may help decide the future of the planet.
Daily Comment

At the U.N., Jair Bolsonaro Presents a Surreal Defense of His Amazon Policies

The outlandish, far-right Brazilian President blamed a “lying and sensationalist media” for propagating fake news about the rain forest’s destruction.
News Desk

The Trump Ally Who Is Allowing the Amazon to Burn

As fires have surged in the Amazon, the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s disdain for environmental-protection measures has drawn international attention.