Glenn Greenwald.

Lula’s Historic Victory in Brazil — and What It Means

The Supreme Court — not Lula or the elected Congress — has been the dominant political force over the last four years, censoring and even imprisoning their critics in ways that even their defenders now acknowledge are endangering Brazilian democracy. And all of that is independent of the grotesque abuses of power and scandals of Brazil’s most destructive force, Alexandre de Moraes (I have reported on these developments with great alarm and detail in countless venues in both Brazil and in the U.S. and will not re-review them here).

Vivek Ramaswamy, Flavio Bolsonaro, and the Corrosive “Never Apologize” Culture

When public penance is demanded by an angry mob, an apology proffered out of fear often does not placate the mob but rather emboldens it. That is because those trying to force others to publicly apologize are doing so not with any righteous cause but as a display of raw power. Within that mob dynamic, the extracted apology is treated as weakness, not as remorse.

Journalism and demands for censorship

Though its epicenter is the largest corporate media outlets, it is the very antithesis of journalism.