At the start of the twenty-first century, Brazil's economy was floundering. Record levels of unemployment, high inflation and the woes of its trading partner, Argentina, were just a few of the factors ...

Brazil is a giant when it comes to soccer. In the late 1990s, it was a giant in another area, this one much less desirable: Brazil had one of the highest levels of income inequality in the world, as ...

Drug companies are in a strange and difficult position—as the inventor and supplier of a stream of life-saving products, they are essential to mankind, but at the same time, they are almost friendless ...

For years, Washington treated crypto like an unwelcome guest in the American financial system. The SEC sued crypto companies ...

This article originally appeared on Undark. As the Covid-19 vaccine campaign gained steam in the United States last spring, I was locked down in my apartment in Rio de Janeiro, trying to avoid being ...

Brazil has a terrifying record when it comes to violence. It features more homicides than any other country on earth: one in ten people killed around the world each year is a Brazilian. This ...

It was supposed to be a short visit, but from the moment he arrived in São Paulo in September 2009, Dimitri Mussard, 28, knew he had found the place he was meant to be. After finishing college at ...

Being deployed with the U.S. military to a forward location has allowed me to take a step back and look at prevention from an overall global view, and to see the similarities and contrasts applied to ...