For the first time in Brazil's recent democratic history, which began in 1984 after the country's twenty-one-year long dictatorship ended, the LGBTQI rights have appeared as the main controversial topic in this year’s presidential election. In the space of two weeks during the election first round, the topic got more ...
At the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Wall I noticed fear.
I did not find myself in Angela Merkel’s words who stated that “I had to wait 35 years for that feeling of liberty.”
I hear nervousness in The New York Times article that ...
In a series of recent works on the rise of inequality in the United States and other countries, economists have proposed a number of policies that might help reverse current trends. But critics of Joseph Stiglitz, Paul Krugman and Thomas Piketty also often complain that their proposals aren’t feasible ...
Pointing to the avarice of the art world, to its entanglement with big money, is an old game. Concerns about the “corrupting influence” of the market are likely as old as the market itself, and are still voiced with some frequency. Two years ago critic and art world bad boy ...
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