The Americas

Medellin: The politics of street art in Colombia’s second city

Last month, my boyfriend and I went on a little getaway to celebrate our anniversary. On the way out of town we saw a large banner on the highway that...

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As America narrows its linguistic identity by executive order, the fight over who gets to be heard —and in what language—returns with new urgency In 1780, one of America’s founding...

Massacre of the penguins

I t’s hard to find the right words to describe the extraordinariness that occurs each year in Patagonia, on Argentina’s Atlantic coast. Hyperbole could only begin to capture what happened there...

The Hunter

Sex, education and the Special Period in Cuba I t was a rainy afternoon in Viñales, and Ernesto had the Italian woman naked on the kitchen counter in her rental house...