Juan Villoro I have lived long enough to attend the weddings of a friend who refers to the most recent one as his “fourth transformation.” A journalist colleague commented that these marriages should not be mentioned in the Social section but the Sports section. Dr. …
Photo: Gorodenkoff on iStock Luis Rubio Every year brings surprises and opportunities, but some can leave us speechless in the face of what happened. In March 2020, all the inhabitants of the planet found us before an unknown world: fear and seclusion due to the risk implied by a pandemic, a phenomenon that, with local …
Manuel Suárez Mier On the lobbying in the United States by Mexican society to stop the destructive excesses of the mind-boggling leader of its government and the peculiar political situation in which the US finds itself. As I reviewed last week, more and more Mexicans …
Antonio Navalón For a long time in China, there was an element of bewilderment that contaminated world communism. Mao Zedong, the great helmsman, the absolute leader of the Chinese revolution, decided that it was not only possible to criticize, but that it was desirable that …
Luis Rubio The year 2021 has been quite strange. It began with nearly exponential growth in the number of contagions and ended with a downward trend. While other nations acted to quell the pandemic with perfectly structured vaccination programs, such as those that Mexico accomplished …
Manuel Suárez Mier The global economic crisis caused to some extent by the pandemic has generated totally deranged economic policy proposals. Here I analyze those that have been presented in monetary policy. The world economic crisis caused to some extent by the pandemic that shut …
Image: Metamorworks on iStock Antonio Navalón We, the people, must decide whether to be part of endurance tests or to chart our destiny in which democratic values and the value and respect for our rights are the main driving force. Lately, being citizens -a status we all have, even though some of us command over …
Luis Rubio The discourse, body language, and tone are increasingly more intolerant and revealing of a growing despair. Verbal radicalization was on the rise throughout last year, culminating in indiscriminate attacks against educational institutions, journalists, and individuals, many of whom, paradoxically, have been the bulwarks …
JOSÉ MANUEL SUÁREZ-MIER Erica Chenoweth shows that peaceful resistance is more effective than armed struggle. In the current climate of anxiety that prevails in many countries, especially those suffering from authoritarian leadership or aspiring to be so, the question arises more and more frequently: what …
Antonio Navalón Since the beginning of time, governments have served – with greater or lesser effectiveness and for better or worse – for many things. In addition to being entities in charge of imposing order, collecting taxes, and exercising legitimate violence – which is done …