Viewed in 2026 on international affairs

Hello everyone!

This post aims to compile all the links to articles, news reports, and posts I've viewed about international affairs in 2026.

I hope you find it useful!

Martin G. B. Bittencourt

America

United States

Instagram: Former CIA Brian Beckhorn on why the USA is not after Venezuela because of oil

The Economist: David Owen argues that Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both too old to be president

Instagram: Trump's first year in numbers

The Economist: America’s elite universities are bloated, complacent, and illiberal

The Economist: Why affirmative action in American universities had to go

The Economist: Plenty of circumstantial evidence at Donald Trump’s trial

The Economist: America’s reckless borrowing is a danger to its economy—and the world’s

The Economist: The real theme of J.D. Vance’s and Donald Trump’s memoirs

The Economist: An American sovereign-wealth fund is a risky idea

The Economist: America is becoming less “woke”

The Economist: Is Kamala Harris right to call Donald Trump a fascist?

The Economist: The Americans who think Trump is anointed by God

The Economist: Jimmy Carter was perhaps the most virtuous of all America’s presidents

The Economist: An American purchase of Greenland could be the deal of the century

The Economist: Much of the damage from the LA fires could have been averted

The Economist: The new American imperialism

The Economist: Tariffs will harm America, not induce a manufacturing rebirth

The Economist: Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6th

The Economist: Two presidents compete over the worst abuse of the pardon power

The Economist: How covid contributed to a crisis of trust in América

The Economist: The tariff madness of King Donald, explained

The Economist: America’s financial system came close to the brink

The Economist: Five crazy Trump tariffs you wouldn’t believe

The Economist: Trump’s “Liberation Day” is set to whack America’s economy

The Economist: Six charts show the impact of Obamacare

The Economist: Why so many children in America have ADHD

The Economist: Donald Trump’s bleak, incoherent foreign-policy strategy

The Economist: America has coped with worse things than Donald Trump

The Economist: Why overdose deaths are falling in America

The Economist: The radical honesty of Donald Trump

The Economist: America’s missing manufacturing renaissance 

Instagram: Analysis of the erosion of US democracy under Donald Trump's second term (Portuguese)

The Economist: Meet the brains who explain Trumpism

Others

The Economist: Gangsters in El Salvador are terrified of strongman Nayib Bukele

The Economist: Latin America’s new hard right: Bukele, Milei, Kast and Bolsonaro

The Economist: Nicolás Maduro’s sham election: the sequel

The Economist: Why the IMF should bail out a serial deadbeat

The Economist: El Salvador’s wild crypto experiment ends in failure

The Economist: Cuba is heading for disaster, unless its regime changes drastically

Europe

The Economist: Belarus prepares for another fraudulent election

The Economist: The secret behind the world’s happiest country

The Economist: A short history of Russia and Ukraine

The Economist: Why France has made abortion a constitutional right

The Economist: Russians go to the polls in a sham election for their president

The Economist: Why are Nordic companies so successful?

Asia

Middle East

The Economist: The real problem with the UN’s agency for Palestinians

The Economist: The war-crimes case against the leaders of Israel and Hamas is flawed

The Economist: The world court says Israel’s occupation is illegal

The Economist: Is a Palestinian state a fantasy?

The Economist: A short history of Syria, in maps

Instagram: Karl Marx and his commentary on the presence and situation of Jews in Israel during his time (Portuguese)

Instagram: Professor comments on Jews going to Israel as refugees and not as colonizers

Others

The Economist: Xi Jinping’s misguided plan to escape economic stagnation

The Economist: A short history of India in eight maps

The Economist: Why Japan’s economy remains a warning to others

The Economist: Yamini Aiyar laments the damage done to Indian democracy under Narendra Modi

The Economist: Singapore has achieved astounding economic success

The Economist: Colin Huang, China’s richest man

The Economist: Why is Thai health care so good?

The Economist: A short history of Taiwan and China, in maps

The Economist: How Xi Jinping plans to overtake America

The Economist: Why India’s elite loves Narendra Modi

The Economist: How China’s communists fell in love with privatisation

The Economist: The unholy alliance of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Kremlin

The Economist: How to clean up India’s filthy cities

The Economist: How 1.4bn Indians are adapting to climate change

The Economist: How (un)popular is China’s Communist Party?

The Economist: How the persecution of sparrows killed 2m people

The Economist: India has undermined a popular myth about development

Africa

The Economist: Ugandan judges uphold a draconian anti-gay law

The Economist: Why Sudan’s catastrophic war is the world’s problem

The Economist: How South Africa has changed 30 years after apartheid

The Economist: The capitalist revolution Africa needs

The Economist: The success of Ivory Coast is Africa’s best-kept secret

Oceania

The Economist: Why do Australians live so long?

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