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‘Google’s power has stifled competition, undermined journalism and distorted the digital economy.’ Photograph: John G Mabanglo/EPA

ReflexionesNuevas Tecnologías

In less than a year, US courts have ruled that the world’s most powerful tech company broke the law – twice.

In August, a federal judge in Washington ruled that Google illegally maintained its search monopoly by locking up defaults on browsers and devices. In April, a federal judge in Virginia found that Google illegally monopolized the digital advertising market, manipulating auctions, restricting and stifling competitors. These two rulings, the most significant antitrust wins against a tech giant in decades, should be a turning point in the digital economy.

The rulings against Google’s illegal monopoly in digital advertising offer a once-in-a-generation chance to redesign the infrastructure of surveillance that underpins Google’s ill-gotten dominance.…  Seguir leyendo »

‘In 2013, Pope Francis’s very first trip as pontiff was to Lampedusa, where tens of thousands of people attempting to migrate to Europe have lost their lives.’ Photograph: Alessandra Tarantino/AP

InternacionalIglesia Católica,

Pope Francis died hours after meeting the US vice-president, JD Vance. If that wasn’t a bad enough omen, the Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, Donald Trump’s acolyte and self-styled “Christian nationalist”, appeared to welcome the pope’s death as a sign of “evil” being “defeated”.

In fact, despite a series of clashes with the Trump White House, Francis was no liberal. While refraining from judging homosexuality, he explicitly disapproved of the liberalising synodal path embarked on by the Catholic church in Germany, which ruled in 2023 that church employees could not be sacked for entering same-sex relationships or remarrying after divorce. On abortion, euthanasia, women and LGBTQ+ rights, Francis betrayed the high hopes that liberals and progressives had bestowed upon him.…  Seguir leyendo »

Artist impression of K2-18b issued by the University of Cambridge. Photograph: A Smith/PA

ReflexionesPensamiento, Cultura y Ciencia

Astrobiology has entered an exciting new phase in recent decades. Since the 1990s, but accelerating in recent years, researchers have begun confirming the existence of exoplanets – that is, planets outside our own solar system – and studying their properties. We now know that planets are common, and a sizeable fraction orbit in the habitable zone of their parent star – suggesting they could have the conditions to sustain biological life.

Studies have also revealed entirely new classes of worlds we had no idea could exist. Hycean planets are unknown in our solar system, and are possibly some of the strangest planets discovered to date.…  Seguir leyendo »

Susan Smith and Marion Calder of For Women Scotland after the supreme court agreed that the legal definition of women did not include trans women. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA

Europa,

Middle-aged women are expected to fade into the background, to be apologetic for their existence, to quietly accept their lot. They’re not supposed to stick up for themselves, to enforce their boundaries, to say no. As a woman, these societal expectations have been drummed into me from day one. But still. The swell of anger and disgust that rose in response to the supreme court judgment last week that made clear women’s rights are not for dismantling – rights already won, that were supposed to be ours all along – has taken my breath away.

I was in court last Wednesday to hear Lord Hodge confirm that the Equality Act’s legal protections that were always intended for women are, indeed, reserved for women.…  Seguir leyendo »

Nayib Bukele with Donald Trump in the Oval Office at the White House, Washington DC, 14 April 2025. Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters

MundoAmérica, , ,

The Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot) maximum security prison in El Salvador is the crown jewel of President Nayib Bukele’s efforts to quash not only criminal gangs, but also criticism and political opposition to his government. The “mega-prison” is also one of the more visible destinations in the emerging map of American deportations – a sprawling archipelago that includes conservative US districts, the Guantánamo military base and Central American waypoints connected by a tangle of military and charter flights.

That the two states have connected their penal architecture is no coincidence. Donald Trump’s aggressive policies towards foreigners build on Bukele’s infamous iron fist crackdown against criminal gangs: it’s a political toolkit that leverages anti-establishment anger to justify an authoritarian slide.…  Seguir leyendo »

‘Why would one want to deny opportunities for kids to learn and for research to advance, unless one fears critical thinking?’ Photograph: AP

MundoAmérica,

Harvard is refusing the plainly illegal demands by the Trump administration. That sends an important signal: resistance is possible.

But universities must realize that the government is adopting a divide-and-rule tactic: they should collaborate on a shared litigation strategy, take a common approach in getting the public on their side, and do everything possible to have Congress push back against Trump treating money allocated by the legislature as if it were a private slush fund to be used for political blackmail. Some faculty have already begun to unite. In principle, not just progressives, but self-respecting conservatives – if any remain – should be responsive to such a three-pronged strategy.…  Seguir leyendo »

Viktor Orbán arrives for the vote by Hungary's parliament to further clamp down on rights for LGBTQ people, 14 April. Photograph: Attila Kisbenedek/AFP/Getty Images

EuropaUnión Europea

Hungary’s parliament has given Viktor Orbán the tools to do what he has long threatened: ban Pride, silence dissent and strip political critics of their citizenship. A constitutional amendment passed on 14 April allows the government to label LGBTQ+ gatherings a threat to children and to revoke the citizenship of dual nationals deemed a risk to “national sovereignty”.

This is a purge disguised as law – another step in Orbán’s dismantling of democracy, where the constitution is degraded to a propaganda instrument. He calls it a “spring clean-up” to root out “bugs”, targeting LGBTQ+ people, journalists, critics, civil society and now, dual nationals.…  Seguir leyendo »

‘We should be prepared to defend the basic rights of all of Trump’s targets with our full strength.’ Photograph: Secom/Reuters

MundoAmérica, ,

Last month, the Trump administration flew 238 Venezuelan immigrants to a brutal prison in El Salvador. Federal officials alleged that the detainees were members of the Tren de Aragua gang, calling them “heinous monsters” ,“criminal aliens”, “the worst of the worst”. The federal government has also revoked visas for a thousand international students over their alleged participation in protests against Israel’s genocide in Palestine. Some were abducted, like Mahmoud Khalil, who has spent more than a month incarcerated in one of the worst jails in the US. Officials alleged that Mahmoud “sided with terrorists … who have killed innocent men, women, and children”.…  Seguir leyendo »

‘Teenagers themselves recognize the harm that social media can pose – perhaps better than anyone – and 94% want their schools to offer instruction in media literacy.’ Photograph: Peter Byrne/PA

ReflexionesSocial, , ,

The latest hit Netflix show has surpassed 100m views and cracked the top five of the platform’s all-time biggest English-language series – without CGI monsters, ornate gowns or Jenna Ortega. Instead, Adolescence is a four-episode limited series about a 13-year-old British boy accused of stabbing his female classmate to death. And as the story unfolds, the pernicious influence of cyberbullying and social media radicalization on the main character comes into focus.

The show has sparked conversations about the much-discussed male loneliness epidemic and the pervasive influence of hypermasculine online personalities. It has set off public debate from India to Australia to the United States about how we raise boys in an era when social media increasingly serves as an endless trough of misogynist messaging.…  Seguir leyendo »

Donald Trump and Conor McGregor at the Oval Office, 17 March 2025. Photograph: Daniel Torok/White House/Planet Pix/ZUMA Press Wire/REX/Shutterstock

EuropaUnión EuropeaDefensa y Seguridad

Europe is scrambling to remilitarise. The European Commission is raising a €150bn (£129bn) defence fund and is calling on EU countries to invest €650bn (£561bn) more. Germany has cast aside its government debt limit to invest hundreds of billions of euros in defence. Poland will train every male of fighting age for battle, and envisages an army 500,000 strong. Latvia’s president has urged the rest of Europe to conscript citizens, as Latvia does. Even neutral Ireland is buying combat jets. No wonder Europe’s defence industry is booming. In just a few months, the share prices of several big weapons manufacturers have nearly doubled and doubled again.…  Seguir leyendo »

‘Medicines that would otherwise have saved lives in future generations, will not be invented.’ Photograph: Rafe Swan/Getty Images/Image Source

MundoAmérica, ,

Like many scientists, I came to the US as a young adult, driven by idealism and ambition. I arrived with all my belongings contained in two suitcases, and just enough cash to cover the first month’s rent on a small apartment. But I also had something of greater value: an offer to work and train in one of America’s top biomedical research laboratories, a chance to participate in the revolution that is modern biological science.

In the years that followed, I became an American scientist and raised an American family. Now, I lead a laboratory in one of the US’s great universities.…  Seguir leyendo »

Markus Söder, Friedrich Merz, Lars Klingbeil and Saskia Esken after reaching an agreement for a new coalition government, Berlin, Germany, 9 April 2025. Photograph: Ebrahim Noroozi/AP

EuropaUnión Europea

Germany is about to get a new fitness trainer. So declared Markus Söder, one of the political leaders who have just announced a coalition agreement. In one of the quirks of the country’s constitution, the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU) will play a significant role in the new administration, and Söder used his moment in the limelight to play the entertainer.

It was a curious way to announce the arrival of a new government, expected to be sworn in during the first week of May. Since the elections of 23 February, Germany will have been in limbo for two and a half months, and all while Donald Trump rampages across the world.…  Seguir leyendo »

In Slovakia, our grassroots movement helped oust a neo-Nazi. We can do it again

EuropaUnión Europea

Having grown up in Banská Bystrica in totalitarian Czechoslovakia, I vividly remember standing in the city’s historic square a few days after 17 November 1989, the start of the Velvet Revolution, holding candles in solidarity with the students protesting in Prague. Never would I have imagined that 35 years later, I would be speaking at a rally in the same square, this time urging the preservation of democracy.

Back then, when I was a young social anthropology academic at our local university, activism was far from my mind. But everything changed for me in 2013 when Marian Kotleba, leader of the neo-Nazi People’s Party Our Slovakia, was elected as regional governor.…  Seguir leyendo »

The ‘new world order’ of the past 35 years is being demolished before our eyes. This is how we must proceed

InternacionalOrden Mundial

After a week that started with the worst financial volatility in recent history and ended with the most serious escalation so far of the China-US conflict, it is time to distinguish the tectonic shifts from the tremors. If nothing changes, the 2020s risks being remembered as this century’s devil’s decade – the term historians once used for the 1930s. It will be defined not just by seven million people who have died of Covid-19 and rising global poverty and inequality – but also by a dismembered Ukraine, a burnt-out Gaza and little-reported atrocities in Africa and Asia, each testimony to the violent displacement of a rules-based global order by a power-based one.…  Seguir leyendo »

A video published by the Palestinian Red Crescent shows the moments before aid workers were killed by Israeli fire in the southern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Palestinian Red Crescent/Reuters

MundoOriente Próximo

When the initial news of the executions of eight paramedics from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and the disappearance of one more broke on Eid al-Fitr, I stared for a long time at the pictures of the men the Israel Defense Forces had killed. I have stared more every day since.

I knew some of these men.

I scan photos of my time in Gaza last year, looking for these men in my memories. I see them with patients, kneeling by the stretchers that acted as beds, dressing wounds, talking, reassuring. I see them loading patients into ambulances and driving off in the summer dust.…  Seguir leyendo »

People at a temporary shelter in Mandalay, Myanmar after the earthquake, 3 April 2025. ‘Please do not rely on the junta alone to deliver aid.’ Photograph: Xinhua/REX/Shutterstock

MundoAsia,

Two thoughts entered my head as soon as I saw that Myanmar, my home country, had been hit by an earthquake: “Is everyone OK?”, followed by, “We just can’t catch a break”.

My loved ones thankfully turned out to be badly shaken but physically OK. There were material losses but nothing compared with what so many others are going through.

The quake on 28 March was both powerful and shallow, a combination that tends to unleash devastation. But it is crucial not to attribute solely to the quake the terrible and heartbreaking images and stories trickling out of Myanmar, of people using bare hands to rescue trapped survivors and desperate pleas for medical assistance for the injured.…  Seguir leyendo »

Members of the National Rally party distribute leaflets in support of Marine Le Pen in Henin-Beaumon, France, 1 April, 2025. Photograph: Stéphanie Lecocq/Reuters

EuropaUnión Europea, ,

The verdict is in: the National Rally (NR) and its leader, Marine Le Pen, have been found to have employed fictitious European parliament assistants between 2004 and 2016. The fraudulent scheme enabled the misappropriation of around €2.9m in European funds, and Le Pen has now been barred from holding public office for five years. Could this mark the end for the National Rally? Highly unlikely – and the reason lies in the party’s strategy.

During the trial, Le Pen deliberately maintained silence in response to the allegations – a tactic some outlets dismissed as evidence of a weak defence, even questioning her credibility.…  Seguir leyendo »

Marine Le Pen leaves the courthouse in Paris, 31 March 2025. Photograph: Abdul Saboor/Reuters

EuropaUnión Europea,

The French justice system chose courage over surrender. The law was clear, and so was the court in its sentencing: no special treatment for Marine Le Pen, no deference to the powerful, no using a candidacy for office as an excuse to break the law with impunity.

For more than a decade, from 2004 to 2016, Le Pen’s reactionary rightwing party – named the Front National until 2018, when it became the Rassemblement National (RN) – operated an organised scheme to embezzle public funds by creating fictitious parliamentary assistant jobs at the European parliament, and to break other financial rules, in effect using European public money to finance a debt-ridden party domestically.…  Seguir leyendo »

A woman holding a Turkish flag during a protest against the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, Istanbul, 26 March 2025. Photograph: Emilie Madi/Reuters

Europa,

When I first visited Istanbul nearly 20 years ago, I spoke with an academic who had lived through Turkey’s military coups and political upheavals – some that had unfolded overnight. He was wise and wary, and though I didn’t fully grasp the weight of his words then, they have stayed with me. “If we’re not careful”, he warned in 2006, “we’ll end up under an authoritarian regime”.

For two decades, his premonition lingered, occasionally breaking through the surface. But last week, the erosion of democratic principles became undeniable. Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem İmamoğlu, was arrested on charges of corruption after a court ruling.…  Seguir leyendo »

‘This expected sticker shock could anger America’s inflation-weary consumers and voters’ Photograph: Roberto Pfeil/afp/AFP/Getty Images

InternacionalEconomía

After two months of flip-flopping on tariffs, imposing them one day and often suspending them the next, Donald Trump gunned the accelerator of his trade war on Wednesday by announcing a 25% tariff on autos and auto parts imported into the United States. That’s a very big deal, and while the president insists this hefty import tax on cars is going to be good for “anybody who has plants in the United States”, his move – like a car in desperate need of a tune-up – could easily backfire.

Nearly half of the cars sold in the US are imported, and Trump’s 25% tariff will add at least $6,000 to the sticker price of the average car, industry experts say.…  Seguir leyendo »