Opinion: The Curmudgeon on the Sacred Cow, an updated Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - On Groundhog Day, a prominent Brazilian daily announced that President Dilma...
February 5, 2015Section
Op-Ed
Editorial, Opinion and Letters to the Editor
Opinion: Fisiologismo 101, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - When you look up this word in Portuguese, you get a...
February 4, 2015 Opinion: Impunity 102, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Under long-standing Brazilian administrative law, all companies whose executives have been...
February 2, 2015Opinion: Impunity 101, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – January 29th, 2014, one year ago, Brazil’s first Anti-Corruption Law (12.846/13)...
February 1, 2015
Opinion: The Curmudgeon on the Sacred Cow, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil’s most sacred cow is Petrobras. When calved in 1953, its...
January 30, 2015 Opinion: Irony and Indonesia, a Smidgen
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Brazil abolished the death penalty when it became a Republic in...
January 19, 2015 Opinion: Brazil and the Not-so-Magic Mountain
Opinion, by Michael Royster RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Thomas Mann’s mammoth novel is set in a sanatorium in a...
January 18, 2015
Letter: Brazil’s New Minister of Science
Letter to the Editor, by Dirk Neyhart Dear Editor, A recent article in the New York Times says that Brazil...
January 14, 2015 Letter: Warning About American Airlines Lounge in Rio
Letter to the Editor, by Anu Raghunathan RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – We live in New Jersey, U.S. and we...
January 5, 2015