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Why is Trump making so many concessions to Russia now? I think it’s three things.
23 octubre, 2026
por Felipe Sahagún
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Why is Trump making so many concessions to Russia now? (Hillary Clinton)
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
New Yorker@NewYorkerWhy the author of “Just and Unjust Wars” came to see the war in Gaza as “a criminal effort.” newyorker.comA 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.
22 octubre, 2026
por Felipe Sahagún
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Global income distribution in our lifetimes (World Bank)
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.
22 octubre, 2026
por Felipe Sahagún
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Homenaje a Julio Fuentes, 25 años después de su asesinato
FAPE y EL MUNDO 1:51 p. m. · 22 oct. 2026
APM@aprensamadrid
Homenaje a Julio Fuentes en el 25 aniversario de su asesinato, en la sede de la APM cutt.ly/HyTySmF7 Destacados periodistas entablarán un coloquio en recuerdo del reportero asesinado en Afganistán, en un acto organizado por la FAPE y la APM Será presentado y moderado por María Rey (@maria_rey @CarmendelRiego @monicagprieto @JqManso @gervasanchezRosa María Calaf Enric Martí Natalia Escalada José Antonio Guardiola (@jaguardiola)
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22 octubre, 2026
por Felipe Sahagún
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The war of narratives in 2026
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