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In a televised presidential debate in Sao Paulo on October 18, Flavio Bolsonaro brought a number from Brazil’s prisons into an argument over crime. “Seventy-three percent”. The 45-year-old senator claimed that was the share of prisoners who had voted for his opponent, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, 80. The figure came from polling stations…

This autumn, the Supreme Court will consider a question with potentially far-reaching consequences for civil rights in the United States: Who gets to enforce them? On November 30, the justices will hear a case over whether employees of federally funded universities can sue under Title IX over alleged workplace sex discrimination. The Trump administration has…

Everything about Alaska is supersized. America’s 49th state is staggering in beauty and scale, with 36,000 miles of glacier-strewn coastline and more land area than Texas, California and Montana combined. Lakes outnumber people. Bears, caribou and moose roam the wilderness. You’ll also find North America’s tallest peak, Mount Denali and it’s largest bald eagle population.

The Right Livelihood Award, often called the alternative Nobel Prize, has this year honoured women and women-led organisations who, in the jury’s words, confront some of the world’s most deeply entrenched power structures: authoritarian rule, patriarchal violence and unregulated artificial intelligence development.

The Strait of Hormuz remains the most perilous choke point on the global map as Iran continues to disrupt traffic by attacking vessels. A recent proposal by the Islamic Republic to open the waterway within seven days raised hopes that the situation could go back to normal. United States President Donald Trump, however, rejected the…