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A woman with gray hair and glasses smiles as she lifts a red carnation from a bouquet. A woman stands next to her supporting her arm. Behind them is a military vehicle with two men in it.
A woman with gray hair and glasses smiles as she lifts a red carnation from a bouquet. A woman stands next to her supporting her arm. Behind them is a military vehicle with two men in it.

Why Portugal Chose Democracy

A Soviet-born journalist investigates how Lisbon shed its imperialist dreams.

Dispatch
Anna Nemtsova
Lula wearing a green sweatshirt with a small red PT star on the chest puts a fist over his chest as he looks into the distance. A stormy sky is seen behind him.
Lula wearing a green sweatshirt with a small red PT star on the chest puts a fist over his chest as he looks into the distance. A stormy sky is seen behind him.

How Lula’s Party Reshaped Brazil

The left-wing leader created a political cathedral for labor unions and progressive intellectuals.

Excerpt
Fernando Morais
A woman is helped through the rubble at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Oct. 11. At least 22 people died and more than 100 were injured in the strike.
A woman is helped through the rubble at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Oct. 11. At least 22 people died and more than 100 were injured in the strike.

Israel Is Weaponizing Forced Displacement—Again

In Lebanon as in Gaza, Israel cannot bomb its way into security.

Argument
Lama Mourad, Sarah E. Parkinson
An abandoned playground next to a heavily damaged building in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Sept. 24.
An abandoned playground next to a heavily damaged building in Pokrovsk, Ukraine, on Sept. 24.

Ukraine Faces a Double Threat if Russia Takes Pokrovsk

The eastern city is a key military hub, but it’s also critical to Ukraine’s steel industry.

Analysis
Keith Johnson
Employees of a shipyard walk over a makeshift bridge to cross the Tarumã Açu River, a tributary of the Rio Negro, which is at a very low level due to a severe drought, in Manaus, Brazil, on Sept. 25.
Employees of a shipyard walk over a makeshift bridge to cross the Tarumã Açu River, a tributary of the Rio Negro, which is at a very low level due to a severe drought, in Manaus, Brazil, on Sept. 25.

Brazil’s Post-Disaster Vote

After months of drought, fire, and flooding, climate change was virtually absent from local elections. Why?

Latin America Brief
Catherine Osborn
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-Te lifts one arm to wave while he stands in front of microphones at a podium decorated with an abundance of purple flowers. He wears a suit with a matching purple tie.
Taiwanese President Lai Ching-Te lifts one arm to wave while he stands in front of microphones at a podium decorated with an abundance of purple flowers. He wears a suit with a matching purple tie.

A Tale of Two National Days

The politics of partying with Taiwan and China in one Washington week.

Dispatch
Lili Pike
Four people use shovels during a groundbreaking. Two cranes behind them display a U.S. flag agasinst a blue, cloud-filled sky.
Four people use shovels during a groundbreaking. Two cranes behind them display a U.S. flag agasinst a blue, cloud-filled sky.

‘Made in America’ Is on the Ballot in Wisconsin

Two visions of trade and economic policy have played out in a key county in the swing state.

Analysis
Megan DuBois
Armored vehicles with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon are seen patrolling southern Lebanon.
Armored vehicles with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon are seen patrolling southern Lebanon.

Israel Targets Peacekeepers in Lebanon, U.N. Says

The U.N. mission warned that deliberate attacks on its forces violate international humanitarian law.

World Brief
Alexandra Sharp
U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington.
U.S. President Joe Biden shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington.

Biden’s ‘Bear Hug’ of Israel Is a Failure

The administration’s unwavering support has brought the Middle East to the brink of all-out war.

Analysis
Khaled Elgindy
A group of people are seen from behind as they stand in a line with their arms around each other during a nighttime memorial service. One person has the Israeli flag slung over their shoulders like a cape.
A group of people are seen from behind as they stand in a line with their arms around each other during a nighttime memorial service. One person has the Israeli flag slung over their shoulders like a cape.

Is Israeli Intelligence Back on Top?

The devastation of Hezbollah and Hamas has wiped away some of the stain of Oct. 7 failures.

Analysis
David V. Gioe, Elena Grossfeld, Marc Polymeropoulos
Visitors stand at an exhibit at the InnoTrans fair, an international industry platform for buyers and sellers of passenger and freight transport technology, in Berlin.
Visitors stand at an exhibit at the InnoTrans fair, an international industry platform for buyers and sellers of passenger and freight transport technology, in Berlin.

Germany Is Hardening Its Supply Chains Against Chinese Control

Berlin has finally realized a globalized world is also a risky one.

Argument
Elisabeth Braw
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a Quad summit in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sept. 21.
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a Quad summit in Wilmington, Delaware, on Sept. 21.

The Once Wobbly Quad Is Here to Stay

The group has found its stride, but its centrality to Indo-Pacific security is not assured.

Analysis
Derek Grossman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on Iran's nuclear program at the defense ministry in Tel Aviv on Apr. 30, 2018.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on Iran's nuclear program at the defense ministry in Tel Aviv on Apr. 30, 2018.

Iran Could Build a Nuclear Weapon Sooner Than You Think

The history of other countries’ weapons programs shows that Tehran could complete and deploy a missile-deliverable warhead in a matter of months.

Argument
Gregory S. Jones, Henry Sokolski
Men twirl dragon streamers on the Bund promenade along the Huangpu River in Shanghai on Sept. 7, 2022.
Men twirl dragon streamers on the Bund promenade along the Huangpu River in Shanghai on Sept. 7, 2022.

China Is Not the Global South

Divergence between the two is emerging on multiple fronts.

Argument
Sarang Shidore
People evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton’s expected landfall in Florida.
People evacuate ahead of Hurricane Milton’s expected landfall in Florida.

Florida Braces for Hurricane Milton

“This could be the worst storm to hit Florida in over a century,” U.S. President Joe Biden warned.

World Brief
Alexandra Sharp
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