Naomi Lautier: The pure talent of a 14-year-old creator living between autism and the art world
El País Englishby Jorge Morla·15d 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·15d 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·15d 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·15d 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·15d 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·15d 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·16d 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·16d 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·16d 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·16d 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·16d 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·16d ago
The iconic GALA Hispanic Theater in Washington, D.C., a pioneer in presenting Spanish-language plays in the U.S.
Xi grants an audience to Trump
El País Englishby EL PAÍS·16d ago
From the plane’s boarding stairs, the whole staging of Xi Jinping’s state visit to the United States became a global semiotic challenge.
Trump’s plan to ban diesel exports aggravates Europe and Latin America’s energy crisis
El País Englishby Nuria Salobral ,Ignacio Fariza·16d ago
The United States and its energy industry are making a killing selling crude oil and its derivatives to the rest of the world.
Renovating the White House or banning journalists: Trump invokes national security to push through his most controversial plans
El País Englishby Jesús-Sérvulo González Moreno·16d ago
Donald Trump’s Swiss Army knife is national security. He uses it for everything. If judges block his plan to remodel the East Wing of the White House to build a ballroom that dwarfs the...
East Coast braces for early-season nor’easter
El País Englishby Sara González·16d ago
The US National Weather Service (NWS) has warned of an early-season nor’easter that will move along the East Coast this weekend, posing risks of coastal flooding, high surf, strong winds and heavy...
‘Nude before traffic’: cyclists riding without clothes to demand safe infrastructure
El País Englishby Celia Fernández·16d ago
A distinctly picturesque scene took place last summer in Westminster, London. As on every second Saturday in June, horses, carriages and soldiers escorted King Charles III and Queen Camilla in a...
ICE wasted millions of dollars on its expansion of detention centers, according to a government report
El País Englishby Jordi Alonso Martínez Yañez·16d ago
Millions of dollars earmarked to expand U.S. immigration detention capacity ended up in warehouses that will now be sold, in tents that never housed a detainee, and in food purchased for empty...
‘Forgotten Island’ turns children’s animation into a song to friendship and roots: ‘Diversity makes us stronger’
El País Englishby María Porcel Estepa·16d ago
There is nothing a good plate of lechón (piglet) can’t achieve. So can a story that has been in the works for a decade and speaks of friendship, migration, change, roots and food (yes, lechón too)...
Dogs also prefer consonants: how our language shapes their brain
El País Englishby Enrique Alpañés·16d ago
Everything is contagious, even the way we listen and understand. For humans, consonants usually carry more information than vowels.
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