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  1. How Real Is the Danger of Zika in Rio?Perhaps we should be talking about diarrhea instead.
    By Susan Rinkunas
  2. Gambling on the Olympics Is Legal in Vegas for the First Time in a Long TimeYou can definitely place a bet on basketball. Racewalking? That might be a problem.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  3. The Disaster OlympicsWhy everyone is bracing for the worst in Rio de Janeiro.
    By Marin Cogan
  4. Athletes Are Refusing to Stay in the Olympic VillageRemember Sochi?
    By Adam Banicki and Cait Munro
  5. sports
    Watch the Olympics 2016 Theme Song Music VideoSports! Brazil! Good Times!
    By Tolly Wright
  6. cheat sheets
    Everything You Need to Know About Today’s Louis Vuitton Cruise ShowSpace-suit dresses and a leather boombox.
    By Catie L'Heureux
  7. international intrigue
    Brazil Reels As the 2016 Rio Summer Olympics ApproachesBrazil’s Senate voted to impeach Dilma Rousseff, as the country struggles with everything from a deep recession to the Zika virus. 
    By Jen Kirby
  8. women in politics
    The Campaign to Impeach Brazil’s President Is Viciously SexistDouble standards and offensive memes abound.
    By Marc Hertzman
  9. international intrigue
    Brazil’s Dilma Rousseff Loses Crucial Impeachment VoteThe vote now goes to the Senate.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  10. international intrigue
    Rio de Janeiro Governor Calls State Finances ‘Tragic’Rio is suffering one of the worst recessions in decades.
    By Claire Landsbaum
  11. Who Brought Zika to the West?The hunt for patient zero finds the outbreak started a year earlier than thought.
    By Samuel Lieberman
  12. select all
    Facebook Exec Arrested and Released in Brazil Over Encrypted WhatsApp MessagesLegal fights over encryption come to Brazil.
    By Sam Stecklow
  13. How Brazil’s Gleeful Dark Humor Helps It CopeBad news can be, oddly, good news for the Brazilian internet and its armies of online comedians.
    By Vincent Bevins
  14. tomorrow
    Welcome to the Age of Robot AnimalsAre mosquito soldiers the answer to the Zika virus?
    By David Wallace-Wells
  15. NYU Ethicist: Zika Virus Should Defer Olympics“It just makes more sense.”
    By Claire Landsbaum
  16. women helping women
    How One Brazilian Doctor Connected Zika to Birth DefectsAdriana Melo didn’t even have research funding when she made a discovery heard around the world.
    By Kiratiana Freelon
  17. Activists Post Racist Tweets to Billboards in Twitter Users’ NeighborhoodsThere’s no “retrieve the author’s location and post this message as a billboard in his neighborhood” button on Twitter (yet). If there were, would we use it?
    By Jay Hathaway
  18. Brazil’s Newest Viral Couple Is This Student and Her PotatoEssena O’Neill warned us about this.
    By Max Read
  19. new faces of things
    Transgender Model Lea T on Beauty and Acceptance“People accept you easily if you look beautiful or if you have money.”
    By Kathleen Hou
  20. movie reviews
    The Second Mother Uses Little Moments of Humiliation to Open Our EyesIf there’s such a thing as humiliation drama, this is it.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  21. that took balls
    It’s Time to Give Women’s Soccer the Support It Deserves“This is a conversation about the global women’s game we’ve been having for over 20 years.”
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  22. that took balls
    Male Official Says Women’s Soccer Is Popular Because Players Are Prettier NowBrazil’s head of women’s soccer thanks shorter shorts for the new interest in the sport.
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  23. future of movies
    How Have Movies Imagined What Movies Will Look Like?Maybe we’ll all just reenact movies in a postapocalyptic society.
    By Simon Abrams
  24. Openings
    Brigadeiro BakeryA Brazilian bakery is opening in Soho.
    By Sierra Tishgart
  25. cannibalism
    Brazilian Cannibals on Trial for Making Pastries Out of Women In the name of religion, of course.
    By Katie Zavadski
  26. Awful Things
    Entire Family Gets Paralyzed After Feasting on Deadly Pufferfish by MistakeFugu is apparently as dangerous as everyone says, and doesn’t have to be served raw and in Japan by a careless sushi chef to mess you up.
    By Clint Rainey
  27. look of the day
    Rihanna Had the Most Fun at the World Cup She wore a neck tattoo and flashed the audience.
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  28. the sports section
    GIF Recap: The Netherlands Ends Brazil’s Nightmare World CupAt least it wasn’t as bad as the last game.
    By Adam K. Raymond and Dan McQuade
  29. ink-stained wretches
    The Saddest Newspaper Front Pages in Brazil After Their World Cup EmbarrassmentO major fiasco da história.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  30. the internet
    All the Nazi Jokes During Germany vs. BrazilA brutal first half leads to some brutal one-liners.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  31. the sports section
    GIF Recap: Germany Stuns Brazil 7–1 to Advance to the World Cup FinalThe second semifinal is tomorrow.
    By Joe DeLessio and Dan McQuade
  32. male gaze
    Turns Out Prince Harry Is an Agile Soccer GoalieHis Brazil tour has involved many athletics.
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  33. Foodievents
    Fat Radish Heads to Brazil Next MonthJust in time for the World Cup.
    By Hugh Merwin
  34. Grill Bin Laden
    Brazil Has a Bunch of Low-Key Osama Bin Laden-Themed BarsOne of them is a favored hangout of “goths and rockers.”
    By Hugh Merwin
  35. Foodievents
    São Paulo Chef Carlos Bertolazzi Will Serve Coxinhas at Smorgasburg This WeekendThe traditional South American snack is typically made with braised chicken thighs.
    By Hugh Merwin
  36. male gaze
    Male Gaze: Guilherme Leão, Brazil’s Hottest Subway GuardVoted the hottest transit guard in São Paulo.
    By Erica Schwiegershausen
  37. Edward Snowden Would Like Not to Be in Russia AnymoreHe would like to be in Brazil. 
    By Dan Amira
  38. very sad things
    Brazil World Cup Stadium Collapse Kills ThreeA crane malfunction occurred today at Itaquerao Stadium in São Paulo.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  39. Pastry UFO
    Here’s a Macaron-Truffle-Brigadeiro Hybrid Headed to Smorgasburg ThisStraight from São Paulo to NYC.
    By Hugh Merwin
  40. today in pop stars
    Justin Bieber Visited a BrothelIn Brazil.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  41. desperate apps
    In Brazil, Spying on Your Lover Just Got HarderThere’s no longer an app for that.
    By Kat Stoeffel
  42. Cut the Mustard
    Brazilian Authorities Pull Heinz ‘Ratchup’ Off the MarketNo one knows how many cases of ratchup are still out there.
    By Hugh Merwin
  43. Brazil’s Pepper-Spray Woman: ‘The Police Are Violent and Cruel Here’Liv Nicolsky Lagerblad de Oliveira has come forward with a long Facebook message.
    By Dan Amira
  44. photo op
    The Story Behind the Brazil Protest’s Shocking Pepper-Spray Photo [Updated]“She wasn’t doing anything,” the photographer tells us. 
    By Dan Amira
  45. photo op
    17 Photos of Brazilians Overreacting to a Nine-Cent Fare Hike [Updated]By rioting in the streets. 
    By Dan Amira
  46. awful things
    American Student Gang-Raped on Brazil MinibusHer companion was beaten and forced to watch.
    By Adam Martin
  47. awful things
    Hundreds Killed in Brazilian Nightclub Fire [Updated]Indoor pyrotechnics seem to be to blame.
    By Caroline Bankoff
  48. gap watch
    Gap Inches Closer to World DominationThe retailer plans to set up shop in Brazil next year.
    By Hilary Moss
  49. Terry Gilliam Feels Every Cut as a CastrationMonths after Terry Gilliam’s Brazil was already a success abroad, he and the studio were still fighting over how to cut it for America. When […]
    By Jesse David Fox
  50. Barf
    More People-Stuffed Empanadas in BrazilThe cannibalism saga gets worse.
    By Jenny Miller
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