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Alex Cuadros

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I'm a freelance writer with bylines at The Awl, Bloomberg Businessweek, Mother Jones, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, Slate, and The Washington Post. My first book, "Brazillionaires," will be out from Random House (via the Spiegel & Grau imprint) in July 2016.

Going farther back: I grew up in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After graduating from Sarah Lawrence College (class of '05) , I worked for a while in book publishing in New York before moving to Bogotá to become a journalist. In 2010 I moved to São Paulo, where I spent a couple of years...

Thomas L. Friedman

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Thomas L. Friedman is an internationally renowned author, reporter, and, columnist - the recipient of three Pulitzer Prizes and the author of six bestselling books, among them and Thomas Loren Friedman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 20, 1953, and grew up in the middle-class Minneapolis suburb of St. Louis Park. He is the son of Harold and Margaret Friedman. He has two older sisters, Shelley and Jane. In January 1995, Friedman took over the Affairs column. "It was the job I had always aspired to," he recalled. "I had loved reading columns and op-ed articles ever since I was in high...