My Flour Costs More Than My Cappuccino
On International Women’s Day, President Dilma Rousseff announced that the government would eliminate sales taxes for all goods in the...
March 19, 2013Section
Guest Opinions
Opinion Articles from The Rio Times
Sure You Gonna Eat That?
Opinion, by Alfonso Stefanini RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Back in my January winter breaks at Hampshire College, I learned...
March 12, 2013It’s Time for Brazil to Start Leading on Small Arms Control
Opinion, by Robert Muggah and Melina Risso RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil is taking a step backwards when it...
March 12, 2013
The Curmudgeon on “the Opiate of the Masses”
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - God may be Brazilian, but Marx certainly wasn’t. He famously stated...
March 5, 2013
The Sound of Pollution
Opinion, by Alfonso Stefanini RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Sounds can be beautiful, like the bioacoustics sounds produced in the...
February 26, 2013
The Curmudgeon on “Mirror, Mirror”
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - No, not last year’s film nominated for an Oscar in Costume...
February 19, 2013The Curmudgeon on the Vicar of Christ
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - The Curmudgeon was fortunate enough to have had a law professor...
February 12, 2013
Life of Pee (Carnaval Edition)
Opinion, by Alfonso Stefanini RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Ash Wednesday has arrived but Carnival is not over. "Blocos", or...
February 12, 2013
The Curmudgeon on “Cui Bono”
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Cariocas awoke last Friday to discover that, in the wake of...
February 5, 2013