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May 12, 2016
Dispatch From Rio: An Interview With the Activist Behind the ‘Olympic Anti-Souvenir Shop’
The exhibit is meant to highlight the injustices that have arrived along with the summer games.
Dave Zirin
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May 10, 2016
Dispatch From Rio: The Muted Olympic Hype Is Deafening
With less than 90 days until the Summer Games, it’s all pain and no party in Rio.
Dave Zirin
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May 10, 2016
Has the Left Run Its Course in Latin America?
Hardly. Despite recent setbacks, it has led the region’s “second independence,” benefiting hundreds of millions.
Mark Weisbrot
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May 6, 2016
Are Brazil’s Corruption Scandals Finally Hitting the Olympics?
The majority of the members of Brazil’s Congress are under investigation or facing charges. Of course the Olympics are corrupt.
Dave Zirin
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April 27, 2016
A Slavers’ Coup in Brazil?
Among the many groups pushing for the impeachment of Dilma Roussef, one is seldom discussed: companies that profit from slavery.
Greg Grandin
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April 21, 2016
The 1988 Seoul Olympics Were a Horror Show of Human Rights Abuses. Will Rio Be the Same?
Brazil’s latest political turmoil doesn’t bode well for the 2016 Games in Rio.
Dave Zirin
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March 22, 2016
Millennials Are Taking to the Streets to Defend Democracy in Brazil
You wouldn’t know it from reading the media, but huge numbers have turned out to preserve the rule of law and the gains of social democracy.
Greg Grandin
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March 21, 2016
How the Rio Olympics Could Cement a Brazilian Coup
Scandals engulfing the country’s elite are not touching the 2016 Olympics. This could very well be by design.
Dave Zirin
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January 27, 2016
Brazil in Peril: The World Cup, the Olympics, and the Zika Virus
The legacy of the 2016 Brazil Olympics could be the spreading of the Zika virus across the hemisphere’s most vulnerable populations.
Dave Zirin
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January 11, 2016
Israel’s Settler Diplomacy Has Apparently Failed in Brazil
Brazil’s rejection of settler-advocate Dani Dayan as ambassador sends a strong message to Netanyahu and the Israeli right.
Greg Grandin