After another two nights of Democratic debates, the 2020 field has spent little time on some of the presidency's most consequential challenges.

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Pope Francis's latest amendment to Catholic doctrine connects to other policies he's promoted in the past.

In a paranoid age, the corroboration provided by The Intercept's latest exposé is unusual.

The former Peruvian president, who killed himself on Wednesday, was among a broader trend of leftist leaders drifting toward the center—and toward corruption.

Thanks to Trump and the Russia investigation, the liberal network is booming. But is it selling its viewers a conspiratorial fantasy?

The Brazilian president has hitched his wagon to the tweeter-in-chief's flickering star—and Trump has lent American legitimacy to an aspiring dictator.

Edir Macedo has a church, a bank, a TV channel, and a Moses complex. And with the election of Jair Bolsonaro, he has emerged as the country’s most controversial kingmaker.

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Nicolás Maduro has presided over a humanitarian nightmare. But there are huge risks to dabbling in regime change.

Brazil's history of military rule makes Bolsonaro more dangerous than the average strongman.

Sixty years to the day after the Cuban Revolution transformed the right-left struggle in Latin America, far-right Jair Bolsonaro became Brazil's president.

Jair Bolsonaro won the presidency on a promise to bring back military rule.

The country's new president wants to increase development in the Amazon rainforest, which absorbs a massive amount of carbon emissions.

A Brazilian newspaper says private companies have illegally spent millions to put Jair Bolsonaro, a free-market homophobe who talks fondly of military dictatorship, into office.

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Fernando Haddad wasn't made for mass politics. But his opponent, Jair Bolsonaro, openly praises the days of military dictatorship.

This October, the far right may take over South America's largest economy.