Why chess still fascinates us: The game that teaches us to think in an age that thinks less and less
El País Englishby Leontxo García·4h ago
There are strong indications that people are thinking less and less, and that many now consider a 30-second video too long.
Kim Jong-un, the leader Trump seeks out, Putin relies on and Xi doesn’t want to lose
El País Englishby Inma Bonet Bailén·5h ago
Donald Trump wants to meet with him again. Vladimir Putin needs him to sustain his war in Ukraine. And Xi Jinping chose a visit to Pyongyang as his first, and so far only, foreign trip of 2026.
Julián Casanova, historian: ‘Goebbels needed to occupy countries to introduce propaganda. Elon Musk needs three minutes’
El País Englishby Berna González Harbour·5h ago
Julián Casanova still writes by hand, just as he did when he started out. He fills countless index cards that help him organize ideas, prepare lectures and build the books that have tackled the...
Stephen Colbert’s late-night successor trades Trump satire for harmless jokes
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·7h ago
“I got three beautiful kids.” Applause from the audience. “The point is, I have four kids altogether, but three of them are beautiful. When that fourth one sneaks up on you... Aaaah!
When the killer is also a victim: The trial of Lindsay Clancy fuels US culture war
El País Englishby Luis Doncel·7h ago
No one disputes the facts. On January 24, 2023, Lindsay Clancy, a nurse living with her family in a town outside Boston, sent her husband out to run some errands.
MS-13 gang members say they buried 200 people in Bukele’s political cradle
El País Englishby Bryan Avelar·8h ago
Three members of the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) gang, testifying under a cooperation agreement with Salvadoran prosecutors, admitted during the mass trial of 486 alleged leaders of the criminal...
A year after Trump sent in troops, Washington still isn’t used to the National Guard
El País Englishby Jesús-Sérvulo González Moreno·9h ago
About 50 people are demonstrating on one of Washington’s liveliest streets. They carry signs reading “Troops Out of D.C.,” “Free D.C.
From endless scrolling to going back to an ex: Why we keep doing things we know aren’t good for us
El País Englishby Estefanía Grijota·1d ago
Every day we repeat countless behaviors unconsciously and almost involuntarily. From small automatisms, such as waking up in the morning and unlocking our phones, or habits like having coffee at...
Is it time to abolish prostitution?
El País Englishby Luisa Arditi·1d ago
Few issues in feminism are as politically charged as the debate over sex work. Back in the 1980s, the ideas of Andrea Dworkin and legal scholar Catharine MacKinnon helped lay the foundations of...
Marion Cotillard: ‘Losing interest in climate change is totally crazy’
El País Englishby Ana Fernández Abad·1d ago
Marion Cotillard (Paris, 50 years old) says that the first time she visited Biarritz “I came with a boyfriend, in my twenties.” This June, amid a heatwave, she returned to the coastal town in...
Enrique Serna, author: ‘As a child, I had nightmares about being taken to the sacrificial stone’
El País Englishby Sonia Corona·1d ago
Enrique Serna, 67, has always been obsessed with the Aztec Empire. His fascination with the symbols and rituals of the Mexica people led the writer to spend five years working on his new historical...
China does not want its internet users to fall in love with an artificial intelligence
El País Englishby Inma Bonet Bailén·1d ago
Yuan Yuan (a pseudonym) is 22 and works in the education sector in Shenzhen, one of China’s major tech hubs. Stressed by adult responsibilities, she found a new refuge months ago.
Carl Wunsch, oceanographer: ‘The consequences of Trump are terrible. Funding is denied because, apparently, all of our research is a hoax’
El País Englishby Selva Vargas Reátegui·1d ago
In the late 1960s, oceanographer Carl Wunsch was teaching at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)... but calculations being made from a classroom were proving insufficient.
Cuba was never ‘next’: The United States is betting on a slow suffocation of the Castro regime by 2029
El País Englishby Carla Gloria Colomé·1d ago
When the United States captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro in his room at Fort Tiuna, in Caracas, many people made a seemingly simple calculation: in politics, as in medicine, evil must be...
Tracing fictional crimes (and a very real one) through the streets of Paris
El País Englishby Jordi Corominas i Julián·2d ago
Some cities transcend their own reality, with the creation of parallel, fictitious maps. This doesn’t happen to many urban centers… but it certainly does with Paris.
From Capri to Biarritz, a photographic journey capturing the carefree life of the beach
El País Englishby Claude Nori·2d ago
In 1982, I decided to begin photographing the Italian coast, the places where I had been happy with my parents.
Inside Mattel, where the world’s most famous toys come to life: How the ‘Toy Story’ action figures are designed
El País Englishby Elisabet Sans·2d ago
What do toys do when we leave the room? Do they move? Do they talk to each other? Do they have their own adventures? These are questions that we all asked ourselves as children.
Samanta Schweblin, writer: ‘Paying attention is the greatest superpower. Not everyone is still capable of it’
El País Englishby Álex Vicente·2d ago
We tend to finish Samanta Schweblin’s books feeling shaken, and with a bitter taste in our mouths. We emerge from each of her works half-intoxicated, as if we had spent hours breathing tainted air.
Boris Cyrulnik, neuropsychiatrist: ‘You can’t reason with fanatics like Trump. If you don’t think like him, you’re an idiot’
El País Englishby Daniel Verdú·2d ago
Boris Cyrulnik approaches through the door of one of the offices at the French editorial that publishes his work. He has a strange expression, and his head is bowed.
Too much testosterone, not enough munitions
El País Englishby Antoni Gutiérrez-Rubí·2d ago
Next September will mark one year since Donald Trump renamed the Department of Defense the Department of War by executive order. “We’re going to go on offense, not just on defense.
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