Ahead of the November midterm elections, the political strategist and co-founder of The Lincoln Project analyzes the growing economic disillusionment among Latino working-class voters and the declining appeal of the MAGA movement
To control Venezuelan oil wealth, the Trump administration needs to control the country’s political conditions — and that requires stability, not change
The veteran Chavista condemns Nicolás Maduro’s capture and argues that Venezuela has lost its sovereignty under US tutelage
In 2024, Trump gained 12 points compared with 2020 by capturing 48% of the Latino vote at the national level. A year and a half after his return to the White House, that support has eroded considerably
The success or failure of the dialogue between the chavista government and the democratic opposition will depend on the concrete changes that give Venezuelans control over their own destiny
The president and CEO of UnidosUS, the largest Latino civil rights organization in the United States, assesses the current political climate in the country less than six months before the midterm elections
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate calls for elections to guarantee Venezuela's sovereignty
The path ahead for the Republican is fraught with difficulties. Negotiations with Iran are frozen and there is no way to unblock them without making significant concessions to the regime or escalating the war
The professor and director of Harvard’s Cuba Program, who is dedicated to unraveling the history of slavery and racism on the island, believes that ‘repression became part of Castroism’s DNA’
I eagerly await the voyage of Artemis 2. But I hope even more urgently that, against Trump’s authoritarianism, American democracy will be reaffirmed in the November midterms
The Middle East conflict has transformed into a war of attrition that could soon undermine Trump’s triumphalism and become a perfect storm with global consequences for his presidency
The historian and Harvard professor reflects on the Republican’s second term: ‘His hold on power is extraordinarily tenuous. And when he falls, he will crash’
Everything indicates that 2026 will begin with Maduro still in power, Trump escalating the confrontation, the opposition trying to square the circle between its urgent needs and the objectives of its ally, and millions of Venezuelans, inside and outside the country, awaiting the longed-for end
The CEO of Microsoft AI and co-founder of DeepMind in 2010 reflects on today’s technological challenges: ‘My main hope is that everyone alive will feel the benefits of a revolution in intelligence that empowers them to achieve and do more’
It is still worth asking whether military action against the Maduro regime — whether with troops or surgical strikes — is truly inevitable
María Corina Machado’s adviser, who is living in exile in Boston, believes that after a transition the country could become ‘the economic engine and a democratic beacon for Latin America’
The former Greek finance minister warns of the dangers of what he calls cloud capital, the driving force behind technofeudalism
Americans are facing a countdown to save democracy. With the government against them, civil society will be crucial in this challenge
Washington has had conflicting opinions that converge around the need to control drug trafficking in the Caribbean, punish Maduro and end the Cartel of the Suns without mobilizing troops on the ground
Recently, the provocateur has gone from being a marginal figure of the so-called ‘Dark Enlightenment’ to placing himself at the center of the American ideological war, cast as a kind of oracle to the MAGA universe
For the US expert on civil rights, marginalization and belonging, who spells his name in lowercase, only a ‘we’ where everyone fits and has value can save democracy
Inertia is not enough to counter the US president; he must be confronted before he causes further destruction
The frenetic pace at which the president is dismantling the U.S. government apparatus is hard to process, even for someone like the expert, who intimately understands how autocracies emerge and take root
The Harvard Kennedy School professor and former Secretary of Defense reflects on the power of attraction and the elections. He believes his country can’t win based on force alone
A second Donald Trump term – with Elon Musk as his lieutenant – would be equivalent to turning the White House into a casino, open to the most extravagant bets, acts of corruption and ceaseless outbursts in the name of libertarian ideology
The lesson for today’s leaders is not only to appreciate the value of errors in judgment, but also to understand that the desire for change may be greater than the best of calculations, not to mention that this desire requires direction
The president and his team have demonstrated an ability to make sensible decisions. Trump has proven the opposite. From that perspective, Biden is not only the lesser evil, but also the best option
