Political consultant Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí presents this space, in which he analyzes for EL PAÍS the political communications of the president of the United States in his second term in office
The still-open wounds from decades of clerical sexual abuse, along with the growing power of far-right Catholics in Trump’s Washington, will shape relations between Robert Prevost’s Vatican and his home country
The Republican president calls the appointment of the first pope from the United States ‘an honor’
In this second installment of the ‘Trump Observatory’, political consultant Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí analyzes how the Republican president has upped the showmanship in his second term
For a long time, a sector of the Church directed and financed from the US attempted to depose the Vatican leader in order to impose its own identity-based ideology
The 29-year-old, whose deportation the government concedes was an ‘administrative error,’ awaits his fate in El Salvador’s mega-prison after the US Supreme Court stayed a district judge’s order to bring him home
Competition Commissioner Teresa Ribera is getting ready to impose sanctions on the tech giants for non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act. But European authorities are not expected to impose the highest possible sanction
The author returns with ‘Playground’, a reflection on environmental issues, tech moguls and social networks
The president signs a decree to stop a ‘revisionist movement that seeks to undermine the remarkable achievements of the United States’
The head of the Social Democratic delegation in Brussels and negotiator of the coalition agreement with the Christian Democrats reflects on the shock that Europe has experienced from realizing it cannot trust the US
Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and CIA Director John Ratcliffe faced intense questioning in the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday
The country that once largely championed multilateralism is now retreating behind its borders, renouncing its commitments and undermining its partners
The US president celebrated his U-turn on Ukraine, his tariffs war and his crusade against immigrants, urging lawmakers for more funds to finance a mass deportation
The president will speak at a joint session of Congress on Tuesday after halting military aid to Kyiv following his rant at Zelenskiy in the White House
The US president will announce the future of the economic agreement with Ukraine on Tuesday, in his speech before both houses of Congress, while softening some measures against Russia
The U.S. president leaves Ukraine and Europe alone against Russia after decades of strategic alliance
The final results spare the CDU from having to negotiate a three-party coalition with the Greens to leave out the far-right AfD, which came in second. The future chancellor says it is paramount to work on Europe’s ‘independence’ from the US
The president’s avalanche of executive orders has been met with dozens of lawsuits, leading to a debate over whether the US is losing its separation of powers — or if judges are overstepping their authority by slowing the White House’s agenda
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 president’s decisions are redefining the role of the world’s leading power and beginning to create victims within the country
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
At the Munich Security Conference, the vice president avoided talking about the war in Ukraine, and instead focused his speech on criticizing European action against the far right: ‘In Britain and across Europe, free speech, I fear, is in retreat’
Following the US president’s talks with Putin and Zelenskiy, Washington’s representatives will discuss the situation with Ukrainians and Europeans at the Munich Security Conference
The Kyiv government has stated that it does not anticipate engaging in any discussions with Moscow representatives
In a rare statement, the Pontiff urges Catholics in the United States to reject ‘narratives that discriminate against and cause unnecessary suffering to our migrant and refugee brothers and sisters’
The crackdown on illegal immigration underscores the crucial importance of foreign labor to the economy of the city and the state of Illinois
The decision to move the inauguration ceremony inside the Capitol due to the cold weather left a multitude of people outside the stadium where the Republican was scheduled to speak
