Augusto Pinochet’s perceived enemies were drugged, hooded, and tossed into the sea by helicopter. Some of Trump’s fans—including a GOP congressman—find that worthy of praise, or at least humor.

All of the death and misery he left in his wake was a mere by-product of his single-minded pursuit of elite power.

Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explained “How Democracies Die.” Then they decided to look even deeper.

Chile’s president was in Washington over the weekend to mark a grim anniversary as some in Congress are still asking questions about the U.S. role in the 1973 coup.

Chicago economists had free rein in Chile. The country is still recovering.

After Charlottesville, the historian Joan Wallach Scott wanted to find out how societies face up to their past—and why some fail.

Three fascism scholars explain why the term remains taboo in American culture—and how that must change.

Two artists use painstaking techniques to take on a dark episode in Chilean history.

Jared Diamond struggles to understand a connected world.

The partisan world of Pablo Neruda

Elections and free markets haven’t solved the real problems in Latin America.

To defend against extreme weather, U.S. cities must accept that survival means change—to the economy and also to the country's conception of itself.

Why America needs truth and reconciliation after Trump

A corruption trial in Brooklyn reveals the deep connections between the old dictatorships of Latin America and soccer’s global governing body.

Under Obama, the U.S. handed over scores of damning historical documents to allies. But such outreach requires a deft, sensitive hand.

Alejandro Aravena, the winner of architecture's Pritzker Prize, has sparked a debate about how to best shelter the global poor.

Sanders has a new responsibility to drive the politics of national security in a better direction.

Chilean filmmaker Patricio Guzmán works at the bloody crossroads where art and politics meet.

The Chilean general ordered an assassination on American soil, and the conservative magazine came to his defense

In praise of the rough, hungry beauty of the World Cup's scrappiest side