Barack Obama in The New Yorker

Tonight, President Barack Obama will deliver the final address of the Democratic National Convention. The New Yorker was one of the first national outlets to take a hard look at Obama, back when the…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 1 minutes (341 words)

Innovation allows Amazon villagers to make ecological history

Collective work … on the Amazon estuary near Macapa. Photograph: Gary Calton Ilha das Cinzas (Island of Cinders) lies between two powerful branches of the Amazon, about six hours by boat from Macapá,…
PUBLISHED: June 19, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (806 words)

Nalgas y libros

Aquel domingo de 1984 acababa de instalarme en mi escritorio para escribir un artículo, cuando sonó el teléfono. Hice algo que ya entonces no hacía nunca: levantar el auricular.…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2080 words)

Os Assassinos

A simplicidade dos recursos estético-literários e o talento narrativo e conciso de Ernest Hemingway faz em do conto “Os Assassinos” uma das obras-primas do conto moderno Ernest…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2921 words)

The US schools with their own police

The charge on the police docket was "disrupting class". But that's not how 12-year-old Sarah Bustamantes saw her arrest for spraying two bursts of perfume on her neck in class because other children…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3037 words)

The Next Russian Revolution

If you start at the Kremlinas almost everything still does in Russiaand drive down Novy Arbat, the first landmark youll pass, just before crossing the Moskva River, will be the…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1692 words)
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