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Rio de Janeiro
August 21, 2016
Sukjong Hong
The Heinous Olympification of Seoul
The 1988 Summer Games set the template for the “neurotic” model of economic development that has plagued Rio and other Olympic cities.
August 18, 2016
Steven Cohen
Ryan Lochte is a very dumb man.
August 5, 2016
Steven Cohen
What will Donald Trump hate about the Olympics opening ceremony?
August 4, 2016
Steven Cohen
Brazil’s Long History of Faking Progress
The ruling class's preference for optics over substance is part of a pattern that stretches back centuries.
July 19, 2016
Saif Alnuweiri
Could the Russian team be banned from the Rio Olympics?
June 20, 2014
Sebastiano Tomada Piccolomini
Photos: Police on "Pacification Patrol" in a Rio Favela
May 5, 2014
Geoff Dyer
An Unreal Photo of a Brazilian Soldier During a Pre–World Cup Favela Operation
December 12, 2012
Sarah Williams Goldhagen
The Beauty and Inhumanity of Oscar Niemeyer’s Architecture
June 22, 2012
Lane Kisonak
Nearing the Point of No Return? A Conversation With the Author of a Game-Changing New Climate Study
April 26, 2011
James Downie
The Olympics: Did Tourists Help China's Economy?
September 13, 2010
Jonathan Chait
Gingrich, D'Souza, And The Mainstream-Kook Convergence
March 31, 2010
Mark Muro, Kenan Fikri
A Global Toolkit for Cities
December 21, 2009
Bradford Plumer
Did Obama Really Sidestep The U.N. At Copenhagen?
October 5, 2009
Suzy Khimm
Could the Olympics Mean More Misery for Rio's Poor?
May 20, 2009
Ted Nordhaus, Michael Shellenberger
The Green Bubble

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