President Obama's clumsy, smirky staff is sinking him -- and resurrecting a deflated GOP! Plus: Lay off Rush! And a Brazilian diva, up close and electric
By Camille Paglia Mar 11, 2009
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Vegetation is reclaiming agricultural land and might save us from consequences of deforestation
By Jens Glüsing
August 17, 2009
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The government subsidizes free software. But does anyone use it?
By Andrew Leonard
August 27, 2008
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Brazilian TV series "City of Men" explores the hardships of growing up among guns and gangsters in Rio's slums.
By Megan Doll
June 3, 2008
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Now on trial: Brazil's criminal justice system
By Lynn Harris
December 12, 2007
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In Brazil, the data suggests that prime-time programming contributed to a national decline in fertility rates.
By Andrew Leonard
May 29, 2008
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After getting kicked around by the likes of Thailand and Brazil, the pharmaceutical industry suddenly realizes, hey, maybe there's money to be made by lowering prices.
By Andrew Leonard
May 20, 2008
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Whenever possible, use digital media to subvert the cultural canon and defy hierarchy
By Andrew Leonard
January 14, 2008
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Like zombies in search of fresh brains, social networks will rise from the grave when you least expect them. Especially if Brazilian hackers are involved
By Andrew Leonard
December 19, 2007
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Brazil's president, Lula, appears on Charlie Rose, and suggests rich countries should treat biofuel imports as "reparations"
By Andrew Leonard
September 27, 2007
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Are the machete-wielding workers who slave in Brazil's sugar cane fields a liability for multinational agribusinesses?
By Andrew Leonard
September 10, 2007
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Global inventories of the grain are plunging and prices are surging. Is the biofuel boogeyman to blame?
By Andrew Leonard
September 4, 2007
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The price of corn is on the rise, the price of sugar is in decline. So which one makes more sense as a biofuel feedstock?
By Andrew Leonard
July 23, 2007
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Catholic officials keep threatening to excommunicate pro-choice politicians and activists like me. I think they're bluffing, and canon law is on my side.
By Frances Kissling
May 21, 2007
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Which is the bigger threat to Brazil's rain forest: Locally grown sugar cane, or American corn?
By Andrew Leonard
May 17, 2007
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Who's the culprit in Japan's fruit juice price hikes? Florida weather or Brazilian sugar cane?
By Andrew Leonard
May 11, 2007
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First there was a sugar rush. Then a gold rush. Both left unsightly scars on the history of Brazil. What will the ethanol rush bequeath?
May 2, 2007
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If the foreign investment in the Brazilian ethanol industry constitutes a new "Great Game," who might end up the loser? A lesson from Afghanistan.
By Andrew Leonard
April 18, 2007
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Talking that "free trade" talk, the president heads to Brazil to pump up ethanol. Why would anyone doubt his sincerity?
By Andrew Leonard
March 7, 2007
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Former Sandinista revolutionary Ortega is back on top in Nicaragua. Will his alliance with Venezuela -- complete with subsidized oil -- be a model for the rest of Central America?
By Lydia Chávez
February 8, 2007
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Easy. Just get everyone in the world to play by an entirely new set of rules.
By Andrew Leonard
February 6, 2007
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After Carnival, soccer and samba, go deeper into this South American nation via its seductive novels and gritty true-life stories.
By Anderson Tepper
January 30, 2007
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I'd been hurt before -- but then it happened: An amazing married Italian!
By Cary Tennis
December 21, 2006
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Two U.S. pilots involved in a collision over the Amazon jungle were held in Brazil for more than two months. Should pilots involved in aviation accidents be treated like criminals?
By Patrick Smith
December 15, 2006
Heads should roll
Can new growth save the Amazon rainforest?
A Brazilian Linux let-down
City kids
Girl abused in all-male jail
What does a girl have to do to get excommunicated?
Daniel Ortega's new best friend: Hugo Chavez
Destination: Brazil
I'm a Brazilian girl -- why do I fall for French and Italian guys?
Ask the pilot
Glenn Greenwald
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