The blows of defeat

“RBG is gone”, he said, as he woke me up. I started crying. That’s not the strange part. The strange part is that it was…

Brazil Black consciousness day 2020: João Alberto’s murder started in 1655 at the battle of Mbwila

How to talk about epidemiology with lay people

Two days ago a Bolsonaro supporter (and we’ll never know who because whatsapp…

Lashing against Progressives: Facebook’s false balance after the attempted Coup

Billy the Storm, or how anything can be politically weaponized

No, it’s not surprising that dozens of millions of Americans believe the election was stolen

Count your losses in detailed accounting

Cut your losses if needed, but never forget to count them or…

Who are we: digging into Gramsci and Bourdieu to understand our identity as “thinkers of society”

Herd Immunity

What it is, what it isn’t and how official public health organisms are talking about it

Good question. I follow all your articles with great interest as I do my favorite inequality economists. These are the days. We used to need a GP and a mechanic on speed dial. Now we need a constitutional lawyer and an inequality economist.

I am what they call an "alien" here: a Brazilian citizen with US permanent residency…