The outcome of any U.S.-Iranian military conflict is far too complex to predict.

Europe’s student protests point to deeper social and political dilemmas.

Brazil’s former President talks with the AI’s Walter Russell Mead about his country’s emergence as a democracy and an economic powerhouse, and how a man of the Left got labelled as a man of the right.

from the U.S. Ambassador to Brazil.

Brazilians too readily accept recycled images of themselves.

Three myths about the Greek crisis.

Constructive moderation is the lodestone of Brazil’s way in the world.

Chinese currency manipulation is pushing Washington and Brasília together.

U.S.-Brazilian cooperation needs careful tending in changing times.

Demography has very probably been a factor in religious history all along. The Concise Etymological Dictionary of the English Language (a favorite book of mine) tells us that our word “proletarian” derives from the Latin proles, ”offspring”: A proletarius was “a citizen of the lowest class, useful only by producing children.” One may modify this […]