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Activists from right-wing Hindu organization Bajrang Dal burn an effigy of Islamic terrorism during a protest against the Tuesday killing of Kanhaiya Lal, a Hindu man in a suspected religious attack in western Udaipur city of Rajasthan state, in Ahmedabad

‘India is a tinderbox’: Religious tensions come to a boiling point after brutal murder of Hindu tailor

Violence

“Religious polarization has been rising in India under [Narendra] Modi, who is seen as a Hindu nationalist leader,” journalist Sushmita Pathak told The World’s Marco Werman. 

VOX party leader Santiago Abascal applauds supporters before making a speech during a rally by the extreme right wing party VOX in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, March 19, 2022. 

Democracy, interrupted: Part I

Critical State
Three white men stand together outside. One wears a hat with German flag colors. One's blue shirt back reads "Dissident."

Europe’s far-right stands behind Trump in US 2020 election

Politics
two cars flash their lights on a sign held by anti-Bolsonaro protesters

Social divisions linger after Brazil’s elections

Global Politics
Jair Bolsonaro pictured with his mouth.

Will fake news carry Brazil’s favored far-right candidate to victory?

Global Politics
A woman holds up a green sign with white letters that says "Women for Bolsonaro"

Angry at status quo, Brazil’s voters open a door for the far right

Global Politics

Far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro’s hardline positions speak to working-class voters who say they feel the left has abandoned them.

Supporters of right-wing presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro react in São Paulo, Brazil

Far-right Brazilian candidate can’t promise ‘peace and love’ after winning first round

Global Politics

Far-right presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he would stick to tough rhetoric in campaigning for the second round of Brazil’s bitterly contested presidential election. “I can’t turn into a Little ‘Peace and Love’ Jair, which would be betraying who I am,” Bolsonaro said in a radio interview. “I have to keep being the same person.”

Green conservatives gather in Texas (from left): Kip Averitt, Former Texas Republican Senator and head of the Texas Clean Energy Coalition; former South Carolina Congressman Bob Inglis; Eli Lehrer of conservative think tank R Street Institute; Debbie Dool

The ‘green conservative’ movement has some big players — and an uphill battle ahead

Environment

Groups like the Green Tea Coalition are pitching conservatives an unlikely message on conservation and clean energy: Not only is it good for the free market, it’s good for national security, too. But the movement has a lot of convincing to do, and faces opposition from well-financed opponents like the Koch brothers.

Carlos Cortiglia: Candidate for British Party Opposed to Immigration is Himself an Immigrant

Conflict & Justice

An immigrant from Uruguay is a candidate for mayor of London. The irony is that Carlos Cortiglia is representing the far-right British National Party, known for its anti-immigration stance in UK politics.

The World

A Takeaway listener and Tea Party member says GOP is hijacking the movement

Global Politics

David Sloan, an early Tea Party member, fears the Tea Party is being co-opted by the Republican Party. We spoke with him about what his particular fears were, and where he draws the lines of difference between the Republican agenda and his own.