The Brazilian Constitution will be upheld. | Fabio Vieira/FotoRua/NurPhoto via Getty Images That’s good news for Brazilian democracy. On June 12, right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro faced his first defeat at the Supreme Court. The Court issued an injunction blocking part of his recent decree, which would have dismantled important tools...

Left to right: Democratic presidential candidates former Vice President Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Sen. Kamala Harris onstage in the second night of the first Democratic presidential debate on June 27, 2019, in Miami, Florida. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images A good event for the upper tier of candidates, a bad one for Biden, and a forgettable...

Rep. Derek Kilmer (D-WA), chair of the House Select Committee on Congressional Modernization | Drew Angerer/Getty Images We’re starting to see the direction of a committee dedicated to changing Capitol Hill. At a time when Congress has arguably been more contentious than ever, the House Select Committee on Congressional Modernization has been unusually...

But US evangelicals have been more loyal to Trump than Brazil’s evangelicals have been to President Bolsonaro, so this move may not work. Speaking at an Assembly of God Pentecostal church this morning, Brazil’s rightist President Jair Bolsonaro opened a new front in Brazil’s culture wars: the composition of Brazil’s Supreme Court. Decrying a recent...

Democrats are trying to learn from 2016 and prevent the same problems in the nomination race. The Democratic National Committee’s newly released rules for participation in the September presidential primary debate reveal a party experimenting with ways to exert control over a large field of candidates. But what’s most notable about these rules is how...

For the second presidential cycle in a row, there’s a record-breaking number of candidates in the nominee race. For the second presidential cycle in a row, Americans are being treated to a nomination field of record-breaking size. At 23 declared candidates and counting, the Democratic primary field dwarfs its 2016 Republican counterpart, a field so...