Image: Dizain on ShutterstockLuis RubioThe advent of populist currents, left and right, has been accompanied by the rejection of so-called globalization and a systemic summons for the reappearance of an all-powerful government, aiming to correct the ills afflicting humanity....
Graph and data: on bea.govReal gross domestic product (GDP) increased at an annual rate of 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2024, according to the “advance” estimate. In the fourth quarter of 2023, real GDP increased 3.4 percent....
Graph and Data: on visualcapitalist.comThis infographic shows the number of AI-related patents granted each year from 2010 to 2022 (the latest data available). The figures come from the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), accessed via Stanford University’s 2024...
Image and Data: on Visualcapitalist.comThe top 10 EV battery manufacturers by total battery deployment (measured in megawatt-hours) in 2023. The data is from EV Volumes.Chinese DominanceContemporary Amperex Technology Co. Limited (CATL) has swiftly risen in less than a decade...
Photo: Artem Lupanchuk on PexelsFederico Reyes HerolesAll human inventions are fallible. Even those that receive the most attention. Francis Bacon asserted that knowledge arises more readily from error than from confusion. The Hindenburg collapsed. The Titanic sank. For example,...
Image: on state.govExecutive SummaryThere were no significant changes in the human rights situation in Mexico during the year.Significant human rights issues included credible reports of: unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings; enforced disappearance; torture or cruel, inhuman, or...
Image: Dizain on ShutterstockAntonio NavalónI remember very clearly that during the Spanish democratic transition and, subsequently, after holding three general elections, we Spaniards discovered that the triumph of democracy was really based on something more than a simple change...