Brazilian Homesteaders Defend the Disappearing Flat-Topped Pine

Natives of the Santa Catarina backwoods are instinctively reserved and mistrustful, but Luiz Backes manages to be even more tight-lipped than most.

Minutes of silence pass, enough to honor all the martyrs to Brazil’s land struggles, as he rolls a cigarette and mulls his next utterance

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Donald Trump’s Obsession

Amid so many calamities in the world—most of them caused or fueled by their own government—the US public has been