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Abelardo de la Espriella from Colombia (left) and Flávio Bolsonaro from Brazil (right): the two men have never appeared on the same stage, but they are running similar campaigns, reading from similar scripts, and looking toward the same set of foreign role models. AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga and AP Photo/Eraldo Peres

In Colombia and Brazil, presidential candidates offer old solutions to old problems

The solutions they offer - economic shock therapy, militarized crackdowns and a lack of agency in foreign policy - are just old responses retooled with new aesthetics and a new international support network.
Most domestic terrorists in the U.S. are politically on the right. Paul Campbell, iStock / Getty Images Plus

Right‑wing extremist violence is more frequent and more deadly than left‑wing violence − what the data shows

Donald Trump and top administration officials confidently assert that left-wing political violence is a huge problem in the US. They’re wrong, say researchers who study extremism.

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