Tag: South America

  • Nation & World

    Protests, inequality, and brutal crackdowns in Latin America

    David Rockefeller Center panel details state of democracies in various nations across Latin America.

    5 minutes
    Steven R. Levitsky.
  • Nation & World

    Identity issues

    In what many participants called a “historic moment,” scholars from around the world gathered for three days at Harvard to explore issues of race, racial identity, and racism in Latin America.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    The lizard king

    Researcher Jonathan Losos devotedly studies the anole lizard, and has compiled decades of research into a new book.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Human colonization of Australia and the Americas examined

    A recent symposium about the prehistory of Australia and the Americas brought together scholars from 10,000 miles apart. But that’s nothing compared to the journey early humans made to populate Australia and the Americas tens of thousands of years ago.

    3 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Poor fall behind in birth control

    Modern contraception has come a long way in the past 20 years, what with diaphragms, hormones, implants, intrauterine devices, condoms, spermicides, and sterilization. But the boom in birth control has been a bust for the poorest women in the world.

    3 minutes