[NEWS] Some Wednesday links

[rfmcdonald]

• The Australian Financial Review warns that Brazil should try to avoid the trajectory of Italy from the 1990s on in falling prey to Berlusconi-like populism.


• Bookforum looks at the very early history of word processing for writers.


• Bloomberg View suggests that an inflexible China is on its way towards a Japan-style slump.


• CTV News reports on despair among Newfoundlanders after the province's new budget.


• The Financial Times notes how allegedly hiding a billion dollars' worth of debt cost Mozambique significantly with the IMF.


• Foreign Policy looks at the distancing between the United States and Saudi Arabia under Obama.


• Kate Beaton at Hark A Vagrant considers the implication of Dagger's frankly unwearable uniform.


• Mashalla News reports on Portuguese-speaking communities in Lebanon, product of migration by Brazilians of Lebanese background.


• New York's Jonathan Chait is critical of Sanders' approach as he is losing, while Vox visits Sanders' upstate New York stronghold of Ithaca.


• Australia's SBS looks at immigrants whose ancestral countries no longer exist. How do they identify?


• The Toronto Star looks at the impact of climate change on the agriculture of the Prairies.


• Wired notes the struggle of Pinterest to move on from being an American platform to being a global one.