Welcome to Brazil, Where a Food Revolution Is Changing the Way People Eat

How the country challenged the junk-food industry and became a global leader in the battle against obesity.

Bridget Huber

Brazil For Sale: How a Legal Coup Set the Stage for Privatization

More austerity and the sell off of treasured public assets will worsen an already crippling recession.

Andy Robinson

Budget Failures, Displacement, Zika—Welcome to Rio’s $11.9B Summer Olympics

The disaster in Brazil is an extreme version of what happens when the International Olympic Committee comes to town.

Dave Zirin

The Future of Philanthropy

Is a new gospel of giving on the rise? Eight philanthropic thinkers weigh in.

Various Contributors

Will the Public Internet Survive?

For Scott Malcomson, the Web is slowly being redefined according to the old political maps of nation-states.

Tekendra Parmar

The ‘Ghostbusters’ Trolls Were Right

In one sense: The jokes do change when the characters are women, who incite you to laugh through a graveyard of America’s bloody history.

Stuart Klawans

Máirtín Ó Cadhain: Found in Translation

They way to see the author’s satire of small-village life whole is to see the translations multiplied.

Aaron Thier

Kill List

Amit Majmudar

The Donald Trump Blueprint

Trump inhabits interiors in lieu of an interior life and shows them off with hyperbolic self-celebration. Gilt by association!

Michael Sorkin

The Partisan Reviewer

In two recent essay collections, Tim Parks explores why we bother with reading and writing books.

Becca Rothfeld