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Rio de Janeiro National Museum of Brazil destroyed by inferno Gina Loukareas
Slow slide into fascism Right-wing Brazilian presidential candidate picks dictatorship-loving general as a running mate Séamus Bellamy
social work Brazil's ambitious anti-poverty initiative engages its youngest citizens Andrea James
the right Could Brazil become a military dictatorship once again? Séamus Bellamy
covers Burning hot Portuguese cover of Sade's "Sweetest Taboo" David Pescovitz
tunisia Teachers on four continents stage mass strikes Cory Doctorow
underwater forest A flooded river turns a jungle path into a crystal clear underwater world Rusty Blazenhoff
haribo Haribo: sweetened with forced labor and abused animals Cory Doctorow
cave Watch a waterfall suck swimmers through a rock into a cave Andrea James
sandwich trouble Why did this man pull a gun on someone else in a snack bar? Rob Beschizza
lula Brazil's Lula found guilty of corruption and money laundering, sentenced to 9.5 years in prison Xeni Jardin
malta files The Malta Files: a European version of the Panama Papers, revealing a global web of corruption Cory Doctorow
a man a plan a canal In Paraguay, the "heist of the century" is blamed on a notorious Brazilian prison-gang Cory Doctorow
brazilians of dollars Hackers hijacked a bank's DNS and spent 5 hours raiding its customers' accounts Cory Doctorow
retroactive immunity The neoliberal politicians who impeached Brazil's president and took over are imploding in spectacular corruption scandals Cory Doctorow
agents provocateurs Brazilian domestic spies use Tinder to infiltrate protest movements Cory Doctorow
olympics Black Lives Matter in Rio, too Cory Doctorow
disappearances Brazilian police killing often as Olympic games loom Rob Beschizza
lies damned lies olympics The Olympics are profitable for every host city (that lies about the numbers) Cory Doctorow
let the games begin Rio: your quadrennial reminder that the Olympics colonize host-states with Orwellian surveillance and human rights abuses Cory Doctorow