No one believes Trump’s hardball tactics, bullying and humiliation of other leaders will stop. But his predatory approach will exact an enormous cost in U.S. credibility and reliability not befitting a serious superpower
The biopic explains what he learned from Roy Cohn, an unscrupulous lawyer addicted to lying and extortion. The portrait is brutal, not unlike the current reality
The U.S. president leaves Ukraine and Europe alone against Russia after decades of strategic alliance
Just as a living being has tissues and organs, society has structures that provide it with resilience and allow it to adapt to changes and evolve
In order to maintain itself, the entertainment industry has no choice but to generate an immense wheel of media noise and keep talking about itself for months and months
The question is no longer whether Trump can amend the Constitution to stay in power, but whether American democracy is strong enough to withstand the challenges of a leader with a base willing to question its limits
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 planet is burning, whether from fires like the one that ravaged Los Angeles or from the clashes stoked by the far right
The emergence of DeepSeek forces us to question the American approach to this technology and the investments it requires
The expansionism of the presidents of Russia and the United States sets a dangerous example for less powerful countries that have open territorial disputes with Ukraine
The AI arms race, spurred by euphoric markets, has been based on the experience of the Magnificent Seven: in technology, scale always wins, and the winner of the race takes all the prizes
The inauguration speech of the new U.S. president has already provided a colossal shock, a stress test for American democracy and the international liberal order
The Summit in December presents an opportunity to create a comprehensive framework that bridges two often separate conversations: addressing the root causes of crime and strengthening the capacity of law enforcement and justice institutions
As social media removes anti-hoax controls and relegates the serious media to the sidelines, China is jailing the journalist who documented the 2022 Zero-Covid protests in ‘Not the Foreign Force’. Yet Musk claims that the real tyranny comes from Keir Starmer in the United Kingdom
Not everything depends on our willpower, nor can we exist outside of the context in which we live. Accepting and confronting change, both individually and collectively, is challenging, but there is no other way forward
The Tesla boss’s support of the far-right AfD in Germany and the insults to the British government, are compounding nervousness on the continent
One month after the fall of Assad, pressure must be placed on the new authorities to prevent them from drifting towards Islamism
If Musk can monetize the angst of teenage girls who hate their bodies, he will. It’s already happening
The Brazilian presidency of the G20 has opened a rare opportunity to rescue some of the most relevant targets of the SDGs. The international community should not spoil it
Vivek Ramaswamy, founder of Roivant Sciences and a former Republican presidential primary candidate, will co-direct the office that looks to streamline government bureaucracy
Everything that happens from now on, including the trial, will have to be viewed as a prequel to a work of fiction
Following the sudden fall of the bloodthirsty Syrian dictator, the priority must now be to avoid a power vacuum that leads to chaos
The weakening of the Damascus dictator’s allies, Russia, Iran, and Hezbollah, together with the coincidence of the truce between Israel and the Lebanese militia and the transition in Washington, explain the lightning offensive of the Syrian rebels
In the absence of a solution for the Palestinians, the risk of a new war persists
Although there is no certainty, the signals sent by the president-elect point to a major impact on two developing wars (Ukraine and the Middle East) and two potential ones (Taiwan and North Korea)
Champagne is flowing in Moscow, Budapest and Jerusalem, and in the headquarters of the far right
María Corina Machado recalls the primary elections that a year ago made her the leader of the opposition to the government of Nicolás Maduro
