Marion Cotillard: ‘Losing interest in climate change is totally crazy’
El País Englishby Ana Fernández Abad·23 Aug 2026
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·23 Aug 2026
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·23 Aug 2026
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·23 Aug 2026
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·23 Aug 2026
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·22 Aug 2026
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·22 Aug 2026
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·22 Aug 2026
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·22 Aug 2026
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·22 Aug 2026
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·22 Aug 2026
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.
Europe seeks rental prisons for its inmates
El País Englishby Elias Camhaji Mascorro·22 Aug 2026
Around 30 inmates sentenced in Sweden for serious crimes are preparing to serve their sentences in Estonia, hundreds of miles from where they were tried.
Peruvians trapped in Russia’s war by a job promise: ‘They’re taking us as cannon fodder’
El País Englishby Renzo Gómez Vega·22 Aug 2026
Since May 6, Karina — a fictitious name used to protect her identity — has clung to a WhatsApp audio message to hold on to the hope that her husband is still alive.
The business of hunger in ICE centers: Migrants spend thousands of dollars to avoid eating ‘dog food’
El País Englishby Isaías Alvarado·22 Aug 2026
When Carlos entered an immigration detention center in the California desert, his oversized uniform fit him snugly. Eight months later, it was hanging off him: he had lost 40 pounds (18 kilograms).
Why is a man being tried for the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur 30 years after his death?
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·21 Aug 2026
For nearly three decades, the murder of Tupac Shakur remained one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in the history of hip hop.
San Antonio, the city of musicians losing its mariachis to Trump’s immigration policies
El País Englishby Patricia Clarembaux·21 Aug 2026
San Antonio, Texas, resonates with the sounds of Mexican rancheras and ballads. It was in one of the city’s public schools that educator and local music icon Belle Ortiz launched a mariachi...
Mexico falls behind in the new global oil map
El País Englishby Eyanir Chinea·21 Aug 2026
The image of Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva smiling aboard an offshore tanker at the mouth of the Amazon River, his hands stained with oil after Petrobras announced a major...
The new frontier of Japan’s rearmament is cyberspace
El País Englishby Gonzalo Robledo·21 Aug 2026
Cyberspace will become a new area of responsibility for Japan’s military and police from October, when a law allowing them to neutralize large-scale cyberattacks at their source comes into force.
Harry and Meghan’s return to the UK brings fresh tensions to the royal family
El País Englishby Rafa De Miguel·21 Aug 2026
Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan Markle, have a long road ahead when it comes to mending fences.
The Ecuadorian fishermen who disappeared during the US war on drugs: ‘I still hope they’ll return’
El País Englishby Carolina Mella Happe·21 Aug 2026
Joel Valencia’s voice was weary after a long day. He had been loading heavy fishing nets and pulling ropes against the constant rocking of the boat.
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