Mac Margolis
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Contributing columnist focusing on Brazilian and Latin American politics
Mac Margolis is a Global Opinions contributing columnist. A longtime correspondent and foreign affairs writer, Margolis has spent four decades reporting on Brazil and the rest of Latin America, as a correspondent for Newsweek International and a contributor to The Economist, The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, The Times of London and The Los Angeles Times, among other publications. From 2014 to 2021, he worked for Bloomberg Opinion. Margolis is also the author of “Last New World: The Conquest of the Amazon Frontier.”