The art of losing
Having done it all my life, I have attained a certain knack of mislaying things
Opinion
Love or greed
Someone should explain to Princess Cristina that her problem is the terrible example set by her conduct
Wretched of the earth
The Chinese Communist Party's "happy few" have become bilionaires of the capitalist elite
OPINION
20 years of free trade
The NAFTA era has seen Mexico become a representative democracy with a functional middle class and a more liberal society
Back to the wars
South Sudan, the world's newest country, has poverty and petroleum in abundant supply 每 but peace is a little harder to come by
Half done
Economic gurus never tire of reminding our prime minister and his team that they must not give way to the euphoria of believing that the crisis is on the wane
The gumboil
He looked in the mirror and again saw his deformed face; the left jaw as if the bone in it had melted
Shut up, sugar
There is one public profession that amateur critics are strangely shy of dissing; treating it with a respect bordering on veneration
COLUMN
Rock Latino
The center of Hispanic culture is shifting westward due to Mexico's demographic weight and its infiltration of the US
Olympic truce
Once the Sochi Games have passed off, Putin will once again be playing hardball
All＊s well
The EU has kicked off 2014 with an unhappy concatenation of practical jokes
Do nothing
It falls to the Socialists in opposition to bring Spanish politics into line with society＊s clamor for change
A Catalan haven
Could an independent Catalonia come to be a new Liechtenstein, shielded from the EU＊s norms of fiscal transparency?
What those Blue Jasmines know
Theirs are hands that never open doors, hands that are never befouled with the dirty businesses of their husbands
Cynical confusion
What would Orwell make of Rajoy＊s doublespeak and dismissal of valid debate?
War of the world
When WWI broke out, most political leaders belonged to the elitist Old Regime. After it, nothing was the same again
Punishable offense
The phrase "I love my country" is invariably grandiloquent, opportunistic and fallacious, and uttered to please a jingoistic element
The Greek mirror
The IMF＊s admission that it erred on austerity＊s impact has not been accompanied by any change in economic policy
Little England
What is happening to our English friends, who used to be a political, economic and even moral beacon for Europe and the world?
The Catalan case
How have people from the region been so suddenly converted to this anti-Spanish culture of ethnic grievance?
Unconditional surrender
In a few years ETA has gone from refusing peace in return for prisoners to accepting peace with no freedom for prisoners
Remember when
If this is what you call recovery, it doesn't feel that way to most of us
Why, Gallard車n?
Abortion being what it is, an intimate and traumatic thing, nobody goes about provoking the rage of church people by boasting of having had one
The thrill of prohibition
The return to power of the right under Mariano Rajoy has been accompanied by a highly ideological agenda that aims to restrict civil liberties
Technocracy or populism?
For many governments, integration into the EU has mainly been a convenient way to blame Brussels for unpopular measures
Unidentified object
Amazon＊s dream of delivery drones sounds like the biblical plague of locusts that ※darkened all the land of Nile§
Bergman & Eichmann
Can the same ethical precept be honest and courageous on the lips of one person, and abject and cowardly on those of another?
Havana＊s homophobes
Homosexuals were among the first to be disillusioned by the Cuban revolution
The bishop＊s weakness
Atl谷tico fan Juan Jos谷 Aguirre has spent 33 years in the Central African Republic, the world's second-poorest country
Ten reasons not to change the abortion law
In this opinion piece, which was published in Spanish ahead of Friday's announcement of changes to the abortion laws, pro-choice associations put forward their arguments for maintaining the status quo