Brazils

What happens when land becomes a financial asset? 

How corporations, pension funds, and other financial actors are driving land dispossession in Brazil

The ‘uberisation’ of psychology in Brazil

Digital platforms promising affordable mental health care are pushing psychologists into precarious gig-style work

A new era of espionage dawns in Brazil

A massive data leak has revealed the widespread use of spyware app originally marketed as a parental control tool

Volkswagen slave labour at Amazon cattle ranch

Brazil’s Labour Ministry has accused Volkswagen of enslaving hundreds of rural workers between 1974 and 1986 in a cattle and logging operation in the Amazon region, allegedly with support from

War and faith

An evangelical preacher’s journey from the world of crime to the kingdom of Jesus

AI-generated Indigenous elders

In Brazil, a digital deception combines artificial intelligence with colonial mythmaking, all in the name of profit

Is another kind of livestock farming possible?

How a Brazilian farm operating on land seized by the Movement of Landless Workers in the 1990s is pointing the way to an alternative to modern industrial-scale livestock farming. When

Autocrats against the academy

How Brazil’s last military junta set scientific progress back by targeting top scientists and systematically destroying the country’s research ecosystem The last few weeks have seen Donald Trump lambast and

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