
US economy loses steam under Trump
Uncertainty over tariffs is raising inflation expectations, damaging consumer confidence, widening the trade deficit and hampering growth

Uncertainty over tariffs is raising inflation expectations, damaging consumer confidence, widening the trade deficit and hampering growth

The president is targeting the US capital, a Democratic city whose residents are suffering from mass layoffs of public officials and attacks on the independence of its cultural institutions and media

The former GDR, a stronghold of the AfD, and Vienna, where the extremists won in September, avoided taking responsibility for Nazi crimes as West Germany did

Those who have been impacted call out ‘chaos’ in Trump administration cuts — and warn that the purge puts at risk the United States’ reputation as a world leader in science, as well as its chances at combating the next pandemic

In London, Zelenskiy declared himself optimistic about the chances of relaunching contacts and signing the economic agreement that was shelved after the White House showdown on Friday

The call to boycott companies is harnessing anger over inflation and Donald Trump’s sweeping and radically conservative policies targeting DEI policies

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announces a plan to curb bird flu and bring down prices that includes the possibility of imports

‘We will not use our skills as technologists to compromise core government systems, jeopardize Americans’ sensitive data, or dismantle critical public services,’ said the group, who make up nearly a third of the department

We thought the world would always get better. That we would achieve greater levels of well-being and happiness, and that it was natural for children to be better off than their parents. But after decades of progress, we are facing times of great uncertainty: it is difficult to imagine a future in a context of wars, populism and natural disasters. What is progress today? Is it still possible?
The tech magnate describes failure to respond to a request he was not authorized to make as ‘incompetence’ as Donald Trump stirs up conspiracy theories

After publicly supporting Germany’s hard-right AfD ahead of elections, the billionaire now wades into Spanish politics. Vox leader Santiago Abascal recently attended the CPAC ultraconservative gathering outside DC

The Department of Government Efficiency has required federal employees to explain their accomplishments over the past week or face layoff, but several agencies are asking employees not to reply

If we want to preserve democracy as a conversation based on shared facts, we must build a digital environment in which that conversation is possible. And the US is not the model. On the contrary, it is time to tell the emperor that he is naked
The Argentine president accompanied the tycoon in an appearance at the far-right conclave held south of Washington

The multibillion-dollar overspend by the ‘Artemis’ lunar program puts it in the crosshairs of the government efficiency agency, which is out to cut staffing and expenses

Elon Musk has announced Grok 3 from his company xAI, and there’s already evidence that it’s the next best chatbot. But new research shows that the tests have many limitations
The Argentine president is scheduled to meet with the head of the IMF to secure more funding, and hopes to meet with Donald Trump at the Conservative Political Action Conference

The discomfort shown by Giorgia Meloni, who made explicit her closeness to the US, reflects the difficulty of the community partners in finding a common strategy

Latino pastors denounce harassment of their parishioners. ‘Some of my pastors hold services with the doors closed because they are afraid that immigration agents will burst in at any moment,’ says a bishop

The US president and the world’s richest man gave their first joint interview, in which they discussed government spending cuts and the tech magnate’s role at DOGE
The launch of $LIBRA with the support of Argentina’s president is the latest warning sign of political interference. These projects are worrying the industry, which fears a loss of investor confidence

The British-Indian writer speaks to EL PAÍS about his new relationship with death, what Netflix failed to reflect about ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude,’ as well as the crisis within the founding myth of the United States being a country of immigrants. ‘Americans should be careful what they wish for’

The author talks to EL PAÍS about the search for more democratic alternatives to the current oligopolistic model of the digital world

‘Calculating Empires’, the award-winning work by Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, is a fascinating map that explores the interconnections between control and technological advances, showing how they have been leveraged as tools of domination

Although Elon Musk attracts most of the headlines, the US Cabinet is full of other wealthy individuals who have significant investments in tech, crypto and pharmaceuticals, to name just a few sectors

The number of toxic messages rose by 50% in the months following the purchase of the social media platform, now named X, and they also received 70% more likes

Musk in the Oval Office, televised signings of executive orders, announcements on board Air Force One... With his return to power, the US president is taking the concept of politics as spectacle further than ever