Dom Phillips

Rio de Janeiro

Dom Phillips is a former Washington Post correspondent based in Rio de Janeiro. He has previously written for The Times, Guardian and Sunday Times. He left The Post in January 2017.
Latest from Dom Phillips

Neymar is back, but Brazil is a changed team and country since the 2014 World Cup

The soccer-loving nation needs a reason to cheer about and the rebuilt national team might provide it four years after 'the seven-one,' its humiliating loss to Germany.

June 8, 2018

Meet Trump’s often unorthodox overseas business partners

A look at Donald Trump's partners in nine countries finds billionaires, businessmen-turned-politicians, small-potatoes developers with Trump-sized dreams — and some with past trouble with the law.

January 13, 2017

    Meet Trump’s often unorthodox overseas business partners

    A look at Donald Trump's partners in nine countries finds billionaires, businessmen-turned-politicians, small-potatoes developers with Trump-sized dreams — and some with past trouble with the law.

    January 13, 2017

    Trump company pulls its name off a Brazil hotel caught up in an investigation

    The decision comes after Donald Trump pledges to limit the activity of his companies.

    December 13, 2016

    Rio hoped for a post-Olympics boom. Instead it is still mired in crisis.

    Three months after the Games, the city’s fiscal, political and security problems are unresolved.

    December 9, 2016

    ‘Tragedy of huge proportions’: Brazilian soccer club’s moment of glory ends in deadly plane crash

    Just six survivors were found after the plane carrying championship-bound Chapecoense slammed into a Colombian hillside.

    November 29, 2016

    Fidel may be gone, but his legacy lives on in Latin America

    Castro’s example can be found in social programs and rebel movements.

    November 26, 2016

    Once underfed, Brazil's poor have a new problem: obesity

    Many Brazilians escaped poverty during the boom years only to fall for fast food.

    November 26, 2016

    Trump’s win may be just the beginning of a global populist wave 

    The biggest prize yet for a movement built on grievance could be a catalyst for more triumphs.

    November 13, 2016