• Populism continues to surge around the world.

On Sunday, voters in Brazil elected the far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro, above, as their next president. Over the years, Mr. Bolsonaro has exalted the country’s military dictatorship, advocated torture and threatened to destroy, jail or drive into exile his political opponents.

In Italy, Matteo Salvini, the populist government’s strongman and leader of the anti-immigrant League party, has used the arrests of African migrants in the death of a teenage girl in Rome to deepen his political inroads there.

Mr. Salvini’s support has grown so strong around Italy that he appears to have started thinking the unthinkable: conquering Rome with a League candidate for mayor. The incumbent, Virginia Raggi, is under fire for her failure to halt the city’s decline.

Meanwhile, the E.U. is concerned about how to handle Italy’s budget crisis, worrying that the bloc’s rejection of the country’s expansionary draft budget will further fuel a euroskeptic wave across the Continent before elections for a new European Parliament in May.