The Americass

Looking beyond El Ramillete

Mexico’s invisible workforce and the cycle of exploitation that feeds the country’s agricultural boom

AI-generated Indigenous elders

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

Medellin: The politics of street art in Colombia’s second city

On a Medellín highway, a crass political banner exposes a fierce, ongoing visual war where spray-painted walls fight to memorialize the city's recently unearthed mass graves.

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As America narrows its linguistic identity by executive order, the fight over who gets to be heard —and in what language—returns with new urgency

Massacre of the penguins

A journey into a Patagonian mystery, piecing together the crime that led to a historic trial

Thesis on a domestication

Camila Sosa Villada’s latest film reimagines trans identity beyond pain, poverty, or even death In Thesis on a Domestication, Camila Sosa Villada turns the tired trope of trans suffering on its

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

The Trump tariffs are also a matter of gender

Why tariffs disproportionately affect women. In Brazil’s Folha de S. Paulo, journalist Bianca Santana notes the way in which the tariff wars accentuate an existing gender inequality in the global trade system,

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