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: Trump's first year in numbers
The Economist: Why affirmative action in American universities had to go
The Economist: Plenty of circumstantial evidence at Donald Trump’s trial
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: Much of the damage from the LA fires could have been averted
The Economist: The new American imperialism
The Economist: Donald Trump has rewritten the history of January 6th
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: 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
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: Why are Nordic companies so successful?
Asia
Middle East
The Economist: The real problem with the UN’s agency for Palestinians
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)
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: 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: 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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