too-big-to-fail

Photo: Dids on PexelsAntonio NavalónIn just forty days, the world is changing as never before. It used to be very difficult, if not impossible, to maintain a situation in which different conflicts were developing simultaneously and in parallel worldwide....

russian-options

Image: Waldemarus on iStockGeorge FriedmanTo read the whole document, the controls for turning pages and zooming in or out are at the bottom left corner above.George FriedmanGeorge Friedman is an internationally recognized geopolitical forecaster and strategist on international affairs...

a-real-uncertainty

Photo: Jaredd Craig on UnsplashAntonio NavalónWhile in Kenya, her father died. From that moment on, Elizabeth II became the Queen and, more importantly, the most iconic figure of the last fifty years within the British monarchy. Queen Elizabeth II...

extremisms

Photo: Brad Switzer on PexelsLuis Rubio“Great cases [before de Supreme Court] like hard cases make bad law. For great cases are called great, not because of their importance in shaping the law of the future, but because of some...

the-kingdom-of-this-world

Image: on abebooks.comIn his masterpiece, whose title is borrowed for this piece, Alejo Carpentier distinguishes the difference between magical thinking and the marvelous real -not to be confused with García Márquez's magical realism-. Writes Carpentier: "But it is that many...

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