Nathaniel Loewentheil

Question: What happens when a politician wants to look tough on Wall Street, without actually doing anything to rein in the big banks' excesses?

Answer: Scott Brown's recent letter to JPMorgan Chase.

Scott Brown wrote to JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon, supposedly "to express [his] concern with the...

Last week, Scott Brown finally released his tax returns, and it turns out that he deducted more than $100,000 in expenses associated with writing his recent book, Against all Odds. How could you spend a $100,000 writing a book about your own life? By hiring a ghost writer....

You don't need to be a baseball fan to know: Fenway Park is sacred land in Boston. The very idea of the Red Sox playing somewhere other than Fenway is blasphemy to Red Sox Nation.
Tomorrow afternoon, the Red Sox play their home opener against the Tampa Bay Rays,...

I've been trying to figure out what Scott Brown is all about -- beyond the policy, where the man stands, and what he stands for. And with all the talk recently about employers looking at Facebook pages of prospective employees, I decided to take a closer look at his

If you follow the Senate race in Massachusetts polling as closely as you follow the Red Sox during Spring training, you now know that Elizabeth Warren is back in the lead after a couple of weeks of bad polling news.

Tuesday's latest poll from PPP -- now showing...

The constellation of super PACs supporting Mitt Romney has drowned each of his opponents with lavish expenditures on attack ads; last week, for example, the super PAC Restore our Future spent $5.7 million. These PACs have not been content just to focus on presidential candidates, however; two days...

If politics is an all-contact sport, cynicism may be its rulebook. Even so, the recent hypocrisy of Senator Scott Brown merits a brief highlight reel.

In January, Brown and his opponent, Elizabeth Warren, reached an enforceable, voluntary agreement to limit the influence of outside parties on the...

This is the first post in a series for Conservation 2051: Planet in Sight, a new project of the Overbrook Foundation. The series will consist of interviews with environmental thought leaders exploring environmental threats and potential solutions from a long-term prospective; we'll ask, What will the...

Shirt and Shoes Required

As the sun rises, lilac-pink clouds filter light over choppy water and white sand, flooding the fake-marble, faux-Vegas lobbies of Cancun's brash hotels. Bleary-eyed foreigners tread slowly through mazes of potted plants, bronze statutes and daiquiri stations. Back from a late night in...

Today, every office in the small South American nation of Bolivia is closed as the country celebrates its 185th Independence Day. Every office, that is, but the tiny, sparsely equipped mayoral office of Pasorapa. A small municipality of 5,000 in the heart of Bolivia's Andean valleys, the town recently declared...

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Key bullfighting vocabulary:
Corrida de Toros: Bullfight
Toro: Bull
Capear: To bullfight (literally: to use one's cape)
Capeador: Bullfighter
Chicha: Homebrewed corn-mash beverage

1) When the local Pasorapa...

"Aquí estámos," the campesina's voice rang out, more heart than tongue, "Bolivia, la esperanza del mundo." Here we are: Bolivia, the hope of the world.

And there we were, day two of the World Peoples' Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth, filling an overflowing classroom...

It felt more like an icy baseball than a water balloon. "Bienvenidos a Carnaval," los jovenes (adolescents) shouted at me as the car skated by, leaving me nearly bruised and totally drenched. Little did I know that balloon was only the first sip of the soaking celebrations that lay ahead...

There aren't many places in the world where one can buy Nintendo Wiis, dried llama fetuses and bananas by the ton, but La Cancha is one of them. A series of interconnecting outdoor markets, stands, tiendas and shopping malls that stretches over nearly a hundred square blocks in the heart...

Last Friday, Evo Morales was inaugurated to his second term as Bolivia's President. The day before, he held a ceremony in ruins close to La Paz to celebrate his newly minted role as Bolivia's Spiritual Guide.

The shimmer-red helicopter bearing Evo Morales towards the Temple of Kalasasaya last Thursday was...

"We dedicate this animal to Pacha Mama, and ask for a year filled with health and prosperity," the mayor prayed. Four men lifted the bleating llama on to the rock and held her down. The cut was swift and deep, and blood gushed from the neck. I'd never seen an...

In the US, presidential elections shift trillions of dollars and move armies across the globe. In Bolivia, the stakes are even higher.

Hoy, el 6 de Deciembre, nearly every citizen in the country - voting is obligatory here - will go to the polls for an election whose outcome...

I recently moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia, and will be publishing occasional pieces here on Bolivian politics as well as my personal adventures. Here's a piece on corporate images and power in Bolivia. You can check it out with accompanying photos here.

Bolivians like Coca-Cola®. Love...

I recently moved to Cochabamba, Bolivia, and will be publishing occasional pieces here on Bolivian politics as well as my personal adventures. Here's a piece on my first inter-city bus travel.

Suggested Revisions to Bolivian Travel Guides, Part 1:

Inter-City Bus Travel

If...

Nate Loewentheil, Roosevelt Institution
Karlo Barrios Marcelo, Future Majority

The heat of the youth joblessness crisis is set to spark a country-wide economic wildfire as students graduate and youth of all backgrounds go in search of their first jobs, internships and other summer opportunities.