Maricarmen, elderly woman evicted from home in Spain, becomes a global symbol for housing activists
El País Englishby Beatriz Olaizola,Lucía Franco·10d ago
They came to Madrid to counterprogram one of Europe’s largest real estate fairs, The District. What they found was an 87-year-old woman who was about to be evicted from their home — and was, before...
After María Corina Machado’s failed attempts to return to Venezuela, her communications chief does so instead
El País Englishby Alonso Moleiro·10d ago
Claudia Macero, the communications chief for opposition leader María Corina Machado, returned to Venezuela on Sunday night after nearly a year and a half in exile.
Sheinbaum at the Zócalo: ‘Mexicans do not want interference, interventionism or violation of our territoriality’
El País Englishby Zedryk Raziel·10d ago
Mexico’s president, Claudia Sheinbaum, addressed a massive crowd this Sunday at the emblematic Zócalo square in Mexico City, just a few days before the start of her third year in office.
Trump’s obsessions are hurting Republicans ahead of midterms
El País Englishby Iker Seisdedos García·10d ago
There is a phrase in Trumpist newspeak used to indicate that the president of the United States is on top of matters — “maintains laser focus.” The problem, just a little over a month before the...
Madonna and Taylor Swift, queens of an MTV VMA ceremony steeped in nostalgia for Dolly Parton, Nirvana and George Michael
El País Englishby María Porcel Estepa·10d ago
It has been 42 years since MTV began honoring what it knows best and what, at the time, few people valued: music videos. Four decades have passed and much has changed in the industry.
The suffocation of Israeli filmmakers: ‘Critical culture is now regarded as an act of treason’
El País Englishby Beatriz Lecumberri·11d ago
In September 2025, the film that won the most awards at the Ophir Awards, Israel’s equivalent of Spain’s Goyas, was The Sea, which tells the story of a Palestinian boy who sneaks past checkpoints...
The perfect, affordable home: The utopia that architecture has been promising for a century
El País Englishby Eva Morell García-Carpintero·11d ago
In 1927, the American architect and inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller proclaimed an idea that sounded like a joke: the possibility of owning a house for the same price as a car.
Is there a 10% chance that AI will kill us all?
El País Englishby Kiko Llaneras·11d ago
In 2024 I sketched a map to situate what experts and commentators expected from artificial intelligence. It had two axes: how much will it advance? and will it be beneficial or dangerous?
Naomi Lautier: The pure talent of a 14-year-old creator living between autism and the art world
El País Englishby Jorge Morla·11d ago
Naomi Lautier is 14 years old. Born in 2011 in Paris, she paints as if the world were speaking to her in its own language.
The Sahrawi pharmaceutical lab battling against sand and shortages: ‘We are a rose in the desert’
El País Englishby Silvia Laboreo·11d ago
The Mohamed Embarek Fakal·la Pharmaceutical Production Laboratory is sometimes called “a desert rose,” because no one expected something like this to grow here.
From Mamdani’s veto to enthusiasm in Estonia: Schools around the world are grappling with the use of AI
El País Englishby Archie Willis·11d ago
Sandra Martinez Roe, a mother in Los Angeles, hopes that her son will never use artificial intelligence (AI) in school.
Middle East conflicts push Europe toward a second energy crisis in five years
El País Englishby Ignacio Fariza·11d ago
Donald Trump returned to power in Washington with two major foreign policy promises: to end the war in Ukraine “in 24 hours” and to keep his country out of more “forever wars.” Almost two years...
Operation Save the Yen: Japan partially turns off the cheap money tap, with a little help from its ‘American friend’
El País Englishby Gonzalo Robledo·11d ago
The Bank of Japan had already announced an interest rate hike, in order to close the gap somewhat with the U.S. rate.
English-speaking, Texan and from vulnerable backgrounds: The Americans still accessing abortion thanks to Mexican feminists
El País Englishby Roberto González·11d ago
The year 2023 was pivotal for understanding the effects of abortion restrictions in the United States. A year earlier, in June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court issued the decision known as Dobbs v.
Helen DeWitt: ‘Publishers treat authors like outcasts until it’s time to go out and sell books’
El País Englishby Rodrigo Naredo Núñez·12d ago
The warning arrives in the form of an email, just a couple of days before the interview. Helen DeWitt, author of The Last Samurai, one of the most acclaimed novels of the century, has requested, as...
Julia Jacklin, on identity and maturity in her new album, ‘The Gem’: ‘You can find freedom in love with the right person’
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·12d ago
Four years have passed since Julia Jacklin released her third studio album, Pre-Pleasure. The record — just like her first two — was critically acclaimed, cementing the Australian artist’s place as...
Wittenoom: The Spaniards caught up in the ‘Australian Chernobyl’
El País Englishby Mónica Ceberio Belaza·12d ago
Wittenoom does not appear on road signs. It has been erased. Removed from official maps. No one lives there and visiting it is forbidden. It is a ghost town.
A drug-free Mexico is not possible, but one that causes less harm is
El País Englishby Alejandra S. Inzunza·12d ago
Drugs have always been around. They were here in the 80’s when cocaine arrived in Mexico City and hooked my father’s generation.
The 140 minutes of horror in the murder of a Mexican musician and his family
El País Englishby Pablo Ferri·12d ago
On the way back home, Jonathan Meléndez began to feel nervous. He called home and nobody answered.
In Washington DC, a Spanish-language theater offers a refuge from ICE
El País Englishby Patricia Caro·12d ago
The iconic GALA Hispanic Theater in Washington, D.C., a pioneer in presenting Spanish-language plays in the U.S.
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