Rousseff's suspension will last 180 days. It could be the end of the career of Brazil's first female president (this article from the Guardian's Jonathan Hunt is a solid valedictory), and the end of 24 years of rule by Rousseff's Workers' Party.
Her successor, Vice President Michel Temer, is widely expected to minimize government intervention in the economy as a way of fighting the country's severe recession.
(According to one critique, this is the key to the whole thing: that the fight to impeach Rousseff is a way for her political opponents to replace her with someone who shares their policy agenda.)
It is definitely true that Temer's policies are not popular among Brazilians. Neither is Temer, for that matter — a majority of Brazilians want to see him impeached for his role in the scandal consuming Rousseff, as well as the Lava Jato scandal that's embroiled many of the country's legislators.
A trio of suicide bombings in Baghdad killed at least 80 people Wednesday, including, reports said, a group of brides preparing for their weddings at a beauty salon.
ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Remember that for ISIS, suicide bombings are a sign that the group is too weak to recapture and retain territory. But that doesn't make them any less deadly.
Compounding the persistence of suicide attacks in Iraq is the government's underinvestment in security — which is probably related to its pervasive corruption problems.
Indeed, Wednesday's bombings (like previous ones this year) were concentrated in Sadr City — a neighborhood named for the father of Muqtada al-Sadr, the cleric currently leading anti-corruption protests against the government.
Protesters even came to the site of the bombings Wednesday to decry the government's failure to protect them from ISIS; as one protester said, the government should be doing as much to protect Sadr City as it does the "Green Zone" that civilians are forbidden to enter.
Kenya has been known to threaten to close its refugee camps before, as a way of scaring the UN and aid groups into giving the government more funds. But it looks like it's serious this time.
The government blames refugee camps for fomenting the Somalian terrorist group al-Shabaab and trafficking weapons. There is exactly zero evidence of this.
There are, on the other hand, huge security concerns associated with kicking 600,000 people out of the country and returning some of them to active war zones.
Even for those who aren't in mortal peril in their home countries, decades of refugee displacement can't be simply undone. Researcher Stephanie Schwartz discusses what she's seen among Burundian refugees returned to their home countries.
At the very least, the Kenyan struggle should (but won't) be a wake-up call for facile invocations of how "neighboring countries" should be the ones to accept refugees in conflicts like Syria.
Donald Trump's "chief policy adviser" says that a Trump presidency would cause the 2026 budget to have a $7 trillion surplus. (It's currently projected to have a $1 trillion deficit.)
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