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26 octubre, 2026
por Felipe Sahagún
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The world according to Fareed Zakaria

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Fareed Zakaria@FareedZakaria
On GPS, at 10am & 1pm ET Sunday on @CNN

Introd: Liberalism in the world is loosing energy

• The week began with Pres. Trump telling reporters: “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine.” As Trump takes a friendlier tone toward Russia & appears increasingly willing to abandon Ukraine, I’ll get a European perspective on all this from Polish Deputy Prime Minister & Foreign Minister @sikorskiradek
• As the Nov. 3 US midterm elections approach, Democratic optimism is surging. Is it backed by reliable polling? I’ll ask the statistician & election forecaster @NateSilver538
• Israel will vote Tuesday in its first election since the Oct. 7 attacks. I’ll talk with @RAND Distinguished Chair for Israel Policy @ShiraEfron about Prime Minister Netanyahu’s competition & whether the vote could change Israel’s policy toward Palestinians in Gaza & the West Bank
• Finally: I’ll talk with @Gladwell about his new book on gun violence, “The American Way of Killing,” why he believes under-policing is a major problem & why he thinks assault-weapons bans don’t work

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24 octubre, 2026
por Felipe Sahagún
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Premios Princesa de Asturias 2026 (Timothy Garton Ash en min. 39)

Ceremonia de entrega de los premios Princesa de Asturias 2026 en Oviedo, a las 18:30 horas en el Teatro Campoamor, presidida por los Reyes Felipe VI y Letizia y con la presencia de la princesa Leonor y la infanta Sofía.

INTERVENCIÓN DE TIMOTHY GARTON ASH A PARTIR DEL MINUTO 39: Resume en tres Ts -Truth, Trust and Tiki-taka o trabajo en equipo- los tres grandes retos de la Europa de hoy para recuperar el unidad y la confianza perdidas desde su momento de mayor auge, en 2005.

23 octubre, 2026
por Felipe Sahagún
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Israel’s crimes in Gaza (Michael Walzer)

Michael Walzer in his Manhattan home on October 19, 2023.Photograph by Corrie Aune. New Yorker

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Why the author of “Just and Unjust Wars” came to see the war in Gaza as “a criminal effort.” newyorker.com
A Philosopher of War Changes His Mind. Michael Walzer wrote “Just and Unjust Wars” half a century ago. The war in Gaza made him rethink one of its fundamental principles.

A Philosopher of War Changes His Mind

Michael Walzer wrote “Just and Unjust Wars” half a century ago. The war in Gaza made him rethink one of its fundamental principles.

 
I first met Michael Walzer about a decade ago. I was a nobody graduate student from Catalonia, finishing my dissertation. Walzer was a professor emeritus at the Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, and the former co-editor of the left-wing magazine Dissent, but he was most interesting to me as a philosopher—and, especially, as the author of “Just and Unjust Wars,” an attempt to delineate the rights and wrongs of warfare in both its causes and its conduct. In the nearly fifty years since it was published, no other book on the subject has matched its influence. I e-mailed him out of the blue, eager to discuss its ideas, and he invited me to his office. We talked about philosophy and politics on a walk in some nearby woods.
 
 
 
 

23 octubre, 2026
por Felipe Sahagún
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Counting the Dead in the Fog of War (Paul Poast, WPR)

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When The Washington Post reported in mid-September that the Pentagon had been intentionally undercounting the number of U.S. military personnel killed in the Iran war, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had a familiar response: denial.

“This is DISGUSTING and FAKE. A complete LIE,” he posted to X, referring to the Post’s reporting. But weeks later, the department’s casualty count was revised up, from 18 to 21. Notably, this followed an episode over the summer, in which the death toll had been lowered from 18 to 14, before being raised again. The New York Times subsequently reported that the Pentagon had begun using a new method of tallying its soldiers who were killed or wounded in action. According to an unnamed U.S. official cited by The Intercept, this was “designed to obscure the count.”

The idea that officials would intentionally avoid disclosing the deaths of U.S. military personnel is surprising. Someone—the families of the deceased, or a whistleblower—would be bound to speak out or go to the press, which is of course what happened here. It is also possible that the undercount was simply due to a clerical error.

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22 octubre, 2026
por Felipe Sahagún
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Global income distribution in our lifetimes (World Bank)

Line chart of the global income distribution in 2000 and 2024 where the share of people living below any chosen poverty line has fallen. For example, the share living on less than $3 a day dropped from 36% to 10%, and the share below $10 a day fell from 74% to 53%. Source: World Bank Poverty and Inequality Platform (Sept 2026 release), in international-$ at 2021 prices. License: CC BY to Our World in Data.
 
Max Roser@MaxCRoser
How has global poverty changed in our lifetimes? No matter what poverty line you choose, the share below it has declined globally.

The World Bank’s International Poverty Line is an extremely low poverty line. Set at $3 per day, it draws attention to the living conditions of the poorest people on the planet.

In the chart above, you can see how the share below this poverty line has declined over the last generation. In the year 2000, 36% of the world’s population lived on less than $3 per day. In 2024, it was 10%.

But is progress against global poverty only happening when measured against such a very low poverty line?

The chart gives the answer. The entire blue line is below the entire dark red line. This tells us that no matter what line you choose, the share below it has declined globally.

Progress against higher poverty lines has been large, too. The share living on less than $5 a day has declined from 57% to 25%, and the share living on less than $10 a day has declined from 74% to 53%.

But on the right-hand side of the chart, we see that most people still live on low incomes: 81% of people in the world live on less than $30 a day, or about $900 a month.