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Hardly Working

There are between 16.5 million and 30 million Brazilians working in the informal economy, ...

Explaining America

Eleonora Duvivier Dodds, an Illinois-based Brazilian writer, had years of scholastic training at the ...

Indian Arrogance

What were the significant contributions of our native peoples to this place we call ...

Good for Suckers

Congress is investigating why drugs are so expensive in Brazil. After two weeks of ...

Songs That Won’t Die

While bossa nova is used as a watershed, A Canção no Tempo (The Song ...

LETTERS

There are between 16.5 million and 30 million Brazilians working in the informal economy, ...

Back home

I’m visiting Brazil after a long time away. As a tourist with saudade in ...

You’re hired!

You will earn much more teaching English in Brazil than many college educated Brazilians ...

Word Mangler

My colleagues run for their office when I arrive and the coffee area empties ...

Crime and Impunity

Political assassination is an all too common occurrence in Alagoas. Ten percen or more ...