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The Unforgivable Silence on Sudan

Silence. Last September, when I visited a makeshift hospital in Adré, Chad, where young Sudanese refugees were being treated for acute malnutrition, that was all I heard: an eerie silence.

I had tried to prepare myself for the wails of children who were sick and emaciated, but these patients were too weak to even cry. That day, I saw a 6-month-old baby who was the size of a newborn and a child whose ankles were swollen, and whose body was blistered, from severe malnourishment.

It was equal parts newly horrific and tragically familiar.

Twenty years earlier I had visited the same town and met with Sudanese refugees who fled violence in Darfur, where the janjaweed militia, with backing from Omar al-Bashir’s brutal authoritarian regime, carried out a genocidal campaign of mass killing, rape and pillage.…  Seguir leyendo »

The Best Way to Find Out if We Can Cool the Planet

A few years ago, the idea of deliberately blocking the sun to combat climate change was taboo for scientists. But a lot can change in a short time.

As the disastrous effects of climate change mount, Congress has asked federal scientists for a research plan, private money is flowing and rogue start-ups are attempting experiments — all signs that momentum around solar geoengineering is building fast. The most discussed approach involves spraying tiny particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight and cool the planet. Other proposals include injecting sea salt into clouds to increase their reflectivity or using giant space parasols to block the sun.…  Seguir leyendo »

‘Si ves un zorro y he muerto, seré yo’

A una manzana de mi casa, a las afueras de Washington, hay un parque serpenteante con un camino que lo recorre. Un domingo, hace poco, mientras daba mi vuelta habitual por el camino, oí un crujido entre las hojas en la colina boscosa arriba de mí. Suelo ver ciervos por allí; esta vez era una zorrita alegre.

Se detuvo. Nos quedamos allí paradas un momento, conscientes la una de la otra. Yo deseaba desesperadamente que se acercara, y poder estar en su órbita un instante más. Me quedé allí un rato largo después de que se fuera.

En algún momento de los últimos meses de vida de mi hija Orli, me dijo, a la ligera: “Si ves un zorro y he muerto, seré yo”.…  Seguir leyendo »

A Solution on North Korea Is There, if Biden Will Only Grasp It

How do you solve a problem like North Korea?

Since the end of the Cold War, it seems that every formula, from threatening war to promising peace, has been tried. And yet, despite being under more sanctions than just about any other country, North Korea developed a nuclear arsenal estimated at 50 warheads and sophisticated missiles that can, in theory, deliver those weapons to targets in the continental United States.

President Biden’s administration has taken a notably more ambivalent approach toward North Korea than his predecessor Donald Trump, who alternately railed at and courted its leader, Kim Jong-un. But we shouldn’t stop trying to come up with bold ways to denuclearize North Korea, improve the lives of its people or lessen the risks of conflict, even if that means making unpalatable choices.…  Seguir leyendo »

Would It Really Be Better to Never See Gabriel García Márquez’s Final Book?

When the writer Gabriel García Márquez, the author of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” and other classic novels, died nearly 10 years ago, he left behind an unfinished novel, “Until August”. The novel was published this week, unleashing a backlash from scholars, writers and fans who’ve taken exception not with the novel itself, but rather with what they see as an act of betrayal that endangers García Márquez’s legacy.

Before his death, García Márquez asked his sons, Rodrigo García and Gonzalo García Barcha, to destroy the novel. They did not. They could not. I understand.

The life of a work of art does not end when its creator dies.…  Seguir leyendo »

There Is Something Putin Can’t Control

According to “The Master and Margarita”, Mikhail Bulgakov’s celebrated novel about the devil’s visit to Stalinist Moscow, “manuscripts don’t burn”. This famous phrase became a shorthand for art’s supposed ability to triumph over repression. Today, Bulgakov’s formula is being put to the test once again in Russia, where a new film adaptation of the book has caused a scandal.

“The Master and Margarita” captured the surreal atmosphere of dark forces and mysterious disappearances in the 1930s Soviet Union. Firmly in the national canon, the book would seem to be safe for cinematic treatment. But the movie’s director is an American citizen who opposes the war in Ukraine, and its winking allusions to the cruelties of life under dictatorship resonate a little too uncannily among Russian audiences, who are flocking to see it.…  Seguir leyendo »

Richard Gigger, a la derecha, discutiendo una partitura. Cortesía de la familia Kaminer

El cielo ensombrecido se extiende sobre kilómetros de arena desértica mientras, a lo lejos, desde un andamio iluminado, se eleva el objeto que cambiará el mundo. La primera prueba atómica es la escena que define Oppenheimer, ganadora de siete Premios de la Academia el domingo por la noche, incluido el de mejor película. La escena se desarrolla durante casi siete minutos de tensión in crescendo: nadie sabía si la bomba estallaría esa noche y, en caso de que sí, si incineraría al mundo entero.

Cuando vi la película, en el fin de semana del estreno, la escena me pareció insoportable, a pesar de que la historia ya había registrado lo que pasaba.…  Seguir leyendo »

Como médica, no le temo a la covid como antes, pero sí me quedo con sus lecciones

Recorrer la unidad de cuidados intensivos es a menudo una lección sobre lo mucho a lo que hay que temer.

Solo hace unos años, caminaba por estos pasillos pensando constantemente en la covid, temiendo contraer el virus en la habitación de un paciente o durante una conversación con algún colega. Ese temor era una fuente de distracción, a veces muy absorbente. Pero ahora ya no temo que el virus haga que me enferme de gravedad, y la pandemia es un recuerdo que empieza a desvanecerse. A veces me cuesta creer que siquiera haya ocurrido.

Cuatro años después de que la Organización Mundial de la Salud declarara la pandemia, el coronavirus sigue con nosotros.…  Seguir leyendo »

Change Is Coming to Iran, Just Not the Change We Hoped For

On March 1, Iranians went to the polls for the first time since the protest movement of 2022 and the war in Gaza. The vote, for the Parliament and Assembly of Experts, which appoints the supreme leader, was far from a referendum on current leaders, though. The big result was the number of people who didn’t vote. Even if we are to believe official numbers, the turnout of this election marks the lowest since the Islamic Revolution of 1979: only 41 percent of Iranian voters showed up at the polls.

Regardless of the turnout, change would not have come at the ballot box.…  Seguir leyendo »

This Prophetic Academic Now Foresees the West’s Defeat

“If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you, he will not”, President Biden said during his State of the Union address on Thursday night. Europe is “at risk”, he added, as he welcomed Ulf Kristersson, the prime minister of Sweden, the newest member of NATO.

But Mr. Biden also said he remains “determined” that American soldiers will not be necessary to defend Europe. As a White House spokesman put it last week, it is “crystal clear” that the use of ground troops is off the table.

Mr. Kristersson’s head must have been spinning. The prospect of further Russian incursions was the strongest argument that the United States relied on to draw NATO into the war, and to draw new members, like Sweden, into NATO.…  Seguir leyendo »

I Said the Era of Famines Might Be Ending. I Was Wrong.

Nearly eight years ago I wrote an essay for New York Times Opinion asking whether the world had finally moved beyond the peril of large-scale famines. My answer was that it might very well have.

I was wrong. Famines are back.

I underestimated the cruel resolve of some war leaders to use starvation as a weapon. And I overestimated how much the world’s largest humanitarian donors cared about feeding the hungry in conflict zones, and giving them the necessary help to rise above the devastation when the fighting finally ended.

Since 2016, the year I took that optimistic view, a decades-long improvement in world nutrition has stalled.…  Seguir leyendo »

‘The Zone of Interest’ Exposes How Easy It Is to Look Away

Any filmmaker trying to draw meaning from the Holocaust onscreen faces potential pitfalls. If you showcase individual human perseverance, as in Agnieszka Holland’s 1990 film “Europa Europa”, you risk trivialization; if you attempt to dramatize the inside of a concentration camp, as in Roberto Benigni’s 1997 film “Life Is Beautiful”, you risk exploitation; if you’re simply interested in preserving the testimony of survivors, you risk redundancy with what Claude Lanzmann accomplished in the 1985 film “Shoah”.

Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film “Schindler’s List” is a masterpiece that consciously navigates these risks, but it, too, has faced criticism for sentimentality and for centering the figure of a righteous gentile.…  Seguir leyendo »

Trump domina el Partido Republicano, y eso afecta a todos los estadounidenses

Con las victorias de Donald Trump el martes, está cerca de conseguir los 1215 delegados necesarios para ganar la nominación presidencial del Partido Republicano. Lo que queda es una formalidad. El partido se ha convertido en un instrumento para las ambiciones de Trump y, con la salida de Nikki Haley, es casi seguro que será su abanderado por tercera vez.

Es una tragedia para el Partido Republicano y para el país al que pretende servir.

En una democracia sana, los partidos políticos son organizaciones consagradas a elegir políticos que comparten un conjunto de valores y aspiraciones legislativas. Funcionan como parte de la maquinaria de la política, trabajan con los funcionarios electos y las autoridades para que se celebren las elecciones.…  Seguir leyendo »

Al otro lado del dominó, sigo siendo la hija de mi padre

Mi padre y yo éramos una pareja de dominó invencible; yo era su frente, y él mi compinche. Cuando aparecía la mesa de dominó en ese momento de la noche en nuestras fiestas familiares, me buscaba por el salón con la mirada hasta que nuestros ojos se encontraban. No soy competitiva, pero sentía el impulso de querer ganar, aunque solo fuese para ver la chispa en sus ojos. Qué emoción oír el golpetazo de la ficha en la mesa mientras mi padre, quien no suele alzar la voz, exclamaba: “¡Capicúa!”, porque sabía que había ganado.

No tenemos una relación estrecha en el sentido en que la tienen algunas familias.…  Seguir leyendo »

Italy’s Oscar Nominee Is a Great Film, but It Doesn’t Tell the Whole Story

Of all the offerings this Oscar season, one stands out: “Io Capitano”. A nominee for best international feature film, the film is a visually stunning and often harrowing account of the journey from West Africa to Europe. Based on many real-life stories, it shows the horrors of the perilous route across the Sahara Desert and the Mediterranean Sea that more than one million people have taken over the past decade and along which thousands have died.

At a time when Italy’s far right is in government, introducing draconian anti-migrant laws amid a flood of poisonous rhetoric, “Io Capitano” represents an important intervention by its director, Matteo Garrone.…  Seguir leyendo »

Israel está cayendo en un abismo

A medida que la mañana del 7 de octubre se aleja, sus horrores no parecen sino crecer. Una y otra vez, los israelíes nos contamos lo que ya se ha convertido en parte de la historia formativa de nuestra identidad y nuestro destino. Cómo durante varias horas los terroristas de Hamás invadieron hogares de israelíes, asesinaron a unas 1200 personas, violaron y secuestraron, saquearon e incendiaron. Durante esas horas terribles, antes de que las Fuerzas de Defensa de Israel salieran de su estado de conmoción, los israelíes tuvieron una perspectiva dura y concreta de lo que podría ocurrir si su país no solo sufriera un golpe severo, sino que realmente dejara de existir.…  Seguir leyendo »

Israel Is Falling Into an Abyss

As the morning of Oct. 7 recedes into the distance, its horrors only seem to be growing. Again and again, we Israelis tell ourselves what has become part of the formative story of our identity and our destiny. How for several hours Hamas terrorists invaded the homes of Israelis, murdered some 1,200 people, raped and kidnapped, looted and burned. During those nightmarish hours, before the Israel Defense Forces snapped out of its shock, Israelis had a harsh and concrete glimpse of what might happen if their country not only suffered a punishing blow but also actually ceased to exist. If Israel were no longer.…  Seguir leyendo »

China logró producir autos eléctricos baratos. EE. UU. tiene que intentarlo también

Pasó muy rápido, tan rápido que tal vez no lo hayas notado. En los últimos meses, los tres grandes fabricantes de automóviles de Estados Unidos —Ford, General Motors y Stellantis, la empresa del nombre peculiar que es propietaria de Dodge, Chrysler y Jeep— comenzaron a estar en un gran aprieto.

Sé que esto puede sonar ridículo. Ford, General Motors y Stellantis obtuvieron miles de millones en ganancias el año pasado, incluso después de una larga huelga de trabajadores de la industria automotriz, y las tres empresas prevén un gran 2024. Pero hace poco, los Tres Grandes se vieron superados e imposibilitados de alcanzar sus objetivos de ventas de vehículos eléctricos al mismo tiempo que aparecía una línea de nuevos coches eléctricos extranjeros asequibles, listos para inundar el mercado mundial.…  Seguir leyendo »

Starvation Is Stalking Gaza’s Children

Standing over a tiny bundle wrapped in a sheet on a hospital bed, a young father drapes his hand across his face in despair. Mousa Salem, a Gaza photographer who videotaped this sad tableau and sent it to me, said the sheet swaddled 2-month-old Mohamed al-Zayegh, who died on Friday in Kamal Adwan Hospital in Gaza City. “Nutrition? What nutrition?” a staff member in scrubs says in the video. “The mother gave birth to him during the war”.

“The health of the mother affects the health of the baby”, he added. “This is very well known in the science of medicine and health.…  Seguir leyendo »

¿Qué es el nacionalismo cristiano exactamente?

Si te alarma el ascenso del nacionalismo cristiano, lo peor que puedes hacer es darle una definición muy general. Si lo defines de manera muy abierta, le estás diciendo a millones de ciudadanos de a pie que van a la iglesia que el simple hecho de que trasladen los valores religiosos a la esfera pública de alguna manera los pone en la misma categoría o en el mismo bando de los verdaderos supremacistas cristianos, los autoritarios iliberales que quieren transformar a Estados Unidos a su propia imagen fundamentalista.

Aquí viene a colación el nuevo documental God and Country, el cual explora el papel del nacionalismo cristiano en la política estadounidense.…  Seguir leyendo »