The story of California's rescued bears isn't just heartwarming. It's the beginning of a new way to think about burn treatment.

A corruption trial in Brooklyn reveals the deep connections between the old dictatorships of Latin America and soccer’s global governing body.

The ruling class's preference for optics over substance is part of a pattern that stretches back centuries.

The 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles were the first to be financed without government funds—and they were also the most profitable.

To understand global inequality, you have to understand Brazil's inequality.

The Olympics have become too big, too costly and too complicated to be hosted by a single city.

It may offer a chance for Brazil to return to the policies "that put the country on a virtuous trajectory of rising growth and falling inequality."

From Brazil to Argentina, the region is moving right. But one nation shows a path forward for the left.

There's no alternative to targeting the rich

Yesterday's opener proves that we don't know what to expect from this World Cup.