In the study, Brazil stands out for its progress in closing the gender gap over the past two decades.

As part of an effort to ‘clean up’ Brazil’s biggest city, mayor João Doria has been down on his knees, spraying grey paint over beloved...

As the country tries to move from kneeling to standing, Brazil’s rapidly changing fortunes—booming, busting and now trying to recover in...

Brazil’s increasingly powerful evangelical church and its progressive movements are both pushing to refine Carnaval to match their often...

Imagine setting your budget today for every year through 2036. This week, the world’s ninth-largest economy made just such a decision.

Dayse Paparoto, a 31-year old chef with crooked glasses and a toothy grin, has suddenly become a symbol of feminist resistance to...

Many Brazilians are revolted by the image, which seems to give shape in pixel form to a feeling that many people share: That the...

Those who remember the Marshall University football team's crash will be startled by the similarities.

The word chacina derives from the killing of pigs. But ask any Brazilian, and they will tell you that there is another, more disturbing...

Brazil’s politics have swung to the right in what will go down in history books as a sea-change period.