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    Women’s Blues in Brazil

    Once again Brazilians are commemorating International Women’s Day. There isn’t that much to celebrate ...

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    Joanne Blaney

    Mixed Race, Mixed Up Feelings

    The debate over affirmative action is encouraging. If nothing else, it forces people in ...

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    Marta Alvim

    Jangada Days

    In Prainha Canto Verde, locals tend to view visitors not as invaders or usurpers. ...

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    Jesse Levinson

    Portuguese, Anyone?

    New York language schools are surprised by the interest that Wall Street businessmen have ...

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    Ernest Barteldes

    Crash Course

    My wife assures me that there are rules, but I just don’t understand them ...

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    Joseph K. Young

    Off-season Rio

    The first thing that strikes you in Rio is the color, masses of it ...

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    John Fitzgerald

    RAPIDINHAS

    Considered by some one of the best Brazilian painters, Cândido Portinari has also been ...

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    Brazzil Magazine

    The Ghost That Haunts Brazil

    Auguste Comte’s positivist ideas have shown their greatest impact in economic policy. Economic policy ...

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    Antony P. Mueller

    The Foolishness of Being Pro-American

    Any anti-American lie, in Brazil, even an absurd one, is immediately taken as pure ...

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    Olavo de Carvalho

    Lula as Pontius Pilate

    Colombia wants Brazil to classify the FARC as a terrorist group, freeze its bank ...

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    John Fitzpatrick