More poverty, less travel and fewer jobs: the world with oil prices at $200
Analysts are beginning to consider the possibility of prices breaking all records if the Middle East conflict persists. A global recession would be nearly inevitable
The debate over Trump’s mental health: Malignant narcissist or superhuman president?
While some warn of the danger of a president with ‘cognitive decline’, his inner circle attributes his outbursts to his iconoclastic personality
The geopolitical suicide of the United States
The Iran disaster adds to the deterioration of alliances, the collapse of an international order that benefited Washington, and the erosion of democracy and soft power
Against the terror of ICE, the Mayans of Brooklyn keep the faith
Cuba is nudged closer to the edge: ‘Cook quickly, before the power goes out!’
The US embargo is exacerbating shortages that have been a fact of life for decades
Cuba: The oligarch's sincerity and the humanitarian flotilla
A solution on Washington’s terms could bring benefits, but the ultimate objectives would serve the interests of an even more predatory entity
A 50-year cultural battle for the memory of the dictatorship in Argentina
The anniversary of the military coup finds the country under a government that downplays state terrorism, while literature, film, and other art forms continue to elaborate on the legacy of the genocide
Loose ends remain after the downfall of El Mencho, the last great drug lord
Doubts about the future of the CJNG paint a picture of the current criminal landscape in Mexico
The dilemma of Iraqi Kurds: ‘It’s not our war’
The autonomous region that houses Kurdish-Iranian militias, aligned with the US and Israel, is the only border in the Middle East from which troops could be sent to the neighboring country
Venezuela forgets about Maduro and starts down an irreversible path
The country is trying to turn the page while Venezuelans take to the streets to gauge the true openness of Delcy Rodríguez’s government
‘I’m not thinking of leaving’: The need to keep sending money back to their families traps African migrants in the Gulf states
Abdallah al Jouaid|Dubai
In the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf, five million people from Africa work mostly in the fields of construction, hospitality, and domestic service. But fluctuating oil prices are threatening their jobs
Diana Walsh Pasulka, specialist in religions: ‘Belief in UFOs is similar to the early Christian community’
The American academic has published an essay about extraterrestrials as the origin of a new creed
‘Prognathodon cipactli,’ a sea monster from the age of the dinosaurs discovered in Mexico
The aquatic reptile, a superpredator of the mosasaur family, inhabited the seas of what is now the northeast of the country about 70 million years ago
Welcome, American scientists: Europe, a haven for researchers struggling under Trump
Initiatives are multiplying in EU countries to attract the talent being driven away by the US president’s policies
Honduras photo archive preserves country’s queer memory
Juan José Santos|Tegucigalpa (Honduras)
A project guards the story of cruel losses and eventual victories of the LGBTQ+ community
Marc Abrahams, founder of the satirical Ig Nobel Prizes: ‘Scientists in the US are very angry. People are waking up’
The awards are moving to Switzerland, because their founder believes he can no longer guarantee the laureates’ safety in the United States
Matthew Lieberman, psychologist: ‘Loneliness kills in ways that aren’t obvious’
The American professor has spent 30 years studying the social brain
From ‘Apollo 8’ to ‘Artemis 2’: Six decades after first flight to the Moon, the space race is no longer the same
NASA will attempt to send four astronauts to orbit the Earth’s satellite in April, in a mission that no longer faces Soviet competition, but Chinese
By your command, my robot: AI war games spark debate about ethical limits
100 experts were unable to agree on whether aging is an illness, or when it begins
Why some people get hooked and others don’t: genetics, childhood and brain circuits explain addiction
Keys to understanding why gas is the weakest link in the global energy supply crisis
Asian countries are most affected by the absence of natural gas from the Persian Gulf, but this could end up putting pressure on prices in Europe and impacting storage capacity for next winter
Plastics, aluminum, and microchips: What the closure of the Strait of Hormuz costs the world beyond oil and gas
Smaller pizzas, a wooden Starbucks logo and tatami in Zara: The demands of the Japanese market
Mexico’s economy secretary: ‘Our vision in the USMCA is to reduce dependence on other regions’
Guggenheim showcases Ruth Asawa, the artist who turned the barbed wire of her concentration camp into art
The Bilbao branch of the museum hosts the first European retrospective of the Japanese-American creative, on the 100th anniversary of her birth and after the show’s stay at the MoMA
‘All architectural styles and none at the same time’: How Dubai became a catalog of whims on a colossal scale
The most populated city in the United Arab Emirates is a postmodern pastiche, a habitable ‘render’, a Las Vegas without the alibi of irony, a city where everything is wrong
The uncomfortable truth that haunts the Ramones: ‘They sold more T-shirts than records’
It’s been 50 years since the debut album of the group that invented punk, although their merchandising eclipsed their actual success on stage
Julia Fullerton‑Batten’s photographs revive the sets of Hollywood’s golden age
Julia Fullerton-Batten
The artist gives new life to the hand‑painted backdrops that, before the digital era, served as scenery in films
Van Gogh’s yellow: more than just a color
The artist’s museum in Amsterdam shows how that tone became a means of expressing emotions and ideas
Work & Lifestyle
The end of the neutral influencer: Can you stay relevant if you never share an opinion?
Perfectly Imperfect, the social network that returns to the internet of yore, and ditches the algorithm
The dadcore phenomenon or why we now like to dress like our fathers
Is it possible to imitate John-John Kennedy without looking ridiculous?
Marta Represa
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The invisible tragedy of the oil spill in Mexico
Iran’s Kurdish militias are waiting for the regime to weaken before making their move
The criminal underworlds of Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador converge in the murder of Fernando Villavicencio
Jens Stoltenberg, former NATO secretary general: ‘I am certain that the members of the Alliance will remain united to protect one another’
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