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Why do we get together to watch football? “The game lasts 90 minutes, but the bond, much longer”

With the World Cup as an excuse, many meet with their loved ones in front of a television, or with strangers in a bar, creating networks and taking care of communities. The social approach to sport improves our health and quality of life

Junior Healy: "I thought: I wish I could pay half the rent with my videos. Half arrived and then the entire rent"

The 'streamer', who gained popularity through his analysis of events such as the Alcàsser case, has just released 'Fracasadas vivas', a podcast where he jokes about the culture of success

This is how hydration breaks affect the dynamics of World Cup matches

78% of new pauses vary the pace of the matches: cut streaks or change which team takes the initiative

Germany awaits the best Wirtz at the World Cup

The 'Mannschaft', which is enjoying its longest streak since 1980 with 10 consecutive wins, faces Ivory Coast today after the win against the weak Curacao

Josema Giménez, Uruguay central defender: “Bielsa likes to take risks and you have to adapt”

The Atlético defender, who is playing in his fourth World Cup, recounts the impact of the Argentine coach in the traditional Charrúa style and determination

AI already writes novels and poems

The emergence of artificial intelligence in the field of writing poses a crucial dilemma: will it continue to be literature?

The expanded painting of Mariela Scafati

In her first institutional exhibition in Spain, the Argentine artist goes beyond the limits of the canvas and turns her work into a territory of care, desire and collective resistance.

Voodoo, trance and 'wah-wah' guitars: another history of African music

Three new reissues of albums from the seventies and eighties recover sound connections between Africa and America, from Benin voodoo to Peruvian tropicalism

The six books of the week

'Babelia' critics review the new work by László Krasznahorkai, José Andrés Rojo, Cynthia Ozick, Donald E. Westlake, Mary S. Hartman and Almudena Rubio

Latina domestic domestic workers in Spain become art

Eulogia Merle portrays seven women and brings their struggle and fortitude into dialogue with the works in the permanent collection of the Museum of America

The great tigers of the cold arrive with the heat

Jonathan C. Slaght, the author of 'Eastern Ice Owls', now publishes an extraordinary book on the Siberian species of the striped feline

'Oasis': the new Spanish Netflix series is another forgettable mediocrity

With insubstantial characters and weak plots, youth fiction fails to contribute anything

Simon Critchley, philosopher, on mysticism: “Rosalía is articulating something very profound”

The British, with working-class and punk roots, deals with spiritual experiences in his latest essay, after having delved into other issues such as pop music or football.

Great masters for uncertain times: the art market starts up again, but with the brakes on

The Art Basel fair confirms a timid reactivation of the sector, supported by large sales of Picasso, Hockney and De Kooning. Faced with global instability, galleries and collectors take refuge in safe values

Hong Kong overtakes Switzerland as global epicenter of cross-border heritage

The Chinese territory is experiencing a moment of prosperity linked to capital flows from mainland China

Josep-Anton Fernàndez exchanges a historical fetitxe for another 'A buit origin'

In this case, the author defends that the Catalan population has to be impure because of the multiple immigration waves.

The Church stands up to Almeida for his treatment of homeless people

The Archdiocese of Madrid and dozens of Catholic communities express their rejection of the policies promoted by the City Council of the capital and the regional government because they consider that they target the poor and immigrants

Why arguing well with your partner can benefit your children

Not all conflicts between parents harm their children. A study shows that managed constructively they improve emotional well-being and social skills

“Sociological Francoism has never left the areas of power”

The Catalan parliamentarian and journalist publishes 'Francoism in the time of Trump', a look at the extreme right based on his experience in Congress

The dream of Castilla produces monsters

Interior periphery and liminal space, the plateau has become the setting for several recent novels that find in its dirty and sinister underside a reflection of current society.

Peridis: “Pedro, I have more”

Vignette from June 20, 2026

European agriculture reaches the 21st century

The European Parliament ends decades of absurd restrictions and accepts genetically modified seeds

El Roto: true darkness

Vignette from June 20, 2026

Roots as a common desire

The void exists and is usually filled with localist semantics, but the risk is falling into identity.

More ambition in the European Budget

The 27 are divided over a project of accounts that does not adapt spending to growing needs

Why are there twice as many footballers as in January? And why Pedri or Mbappé are the exception

In Barça and Madrid in recent years there are twice as many players in January as in December. It's not a coincidence. The effect is less noticeable in the World Cup, and that is not a coincidence either.

The day Maradona explained a country

The great myths, like Diego 40 years ago in México 86, are born when a ball obeys a predestined man

Puzzled rabbit

I imagine Bad Bunny's perplexity when he sees that many are beginning to think that he, that boy who is so anti-system, 'is' the system

The traffic jam to obtain an appointment at the police station for the identity card worries already regularized immigrants

Foreigners long to travel to their countries of origin to see their children and relatives whom they have not visited for years

“This has only just begun”: the government agreements between PP and Vox destroy regional cooperation

In Aragon, Extremadura or Castilla y León, “national priority” is defended. NGOs are forced to abandon or reduce projects due to funding cuts and remind Santiago Abascal's party that solidarity is not a threat but a response to global challenges

The chameleon spreads in Spain motivated by people: “Don't take it no matter how pretty and friendly it is”

The new distribution map of the reptile confirms the stable presence of the species, in addition to Andalusia, in Murcia, Alicante and Valencia

The Government and its partners link the votes of Junts with PP and Vox with Puigdemont's amnesty

Feijóo relegates the attacks on the escaped former Catalan president and puts pressure on PNV and Rufián for the end of the legislature

How to (not) inform a chemical submission victim of what they have suffered: “I became hysterical and said: I don't want to see any more.”

Tamara Fernández Varela was drugged for years by her husband and found out about her rape from a letter from the court with photos of her attacks

More than 1,400 hotel companies finalize a class action lawsuit against Booking for abusive conditions

The CCS law firm estimates that companies can obtain up to 7.3% of the revenue paid to the platform from a similar case tried in the United Kingdom

'Pa'lante' we are all

This stage will not leave us, neither on one side nor on the other, the most edifying slogans of our time

The possessions of the destitute

Having nothing is no longer a guarantee that one cannot be even more deprived, as Madrid already does with homeless people

Zapatero's good name

When something as serious as politics becomes a football match, there are no longer critical citizens but fans.

Awa Fam: “When I was a cadet, if I played well, and just because I was black, they said: 'This girl is 40 years old'”

At only 19 years old, he has made history by reaching the number three position in the draft, the process by which one reaches the NBA, something that only Pau Gasol had achieved in Spain. The center from Alicante lands at the Seattle Storm, with her backpack overflowing with intelligence, sorority and maturity. And most importantly: the humility of someone who never forgets where he comes from.

The five most controversial exams of the PAU: from zeros in Basque to drama in Mathematics

Protests over the difficulty or correctness of some exercises force political leaders in several autonomous communities to intervene

Where to see the eclipse? Check the magnitude, time and visibility in each point of the country

The following map shows how the phenomenon of August 12 will be seen from each municipality in Spain

Zapatero defended his secretary's billing against the judge's suspicions: "I could have just put 'consulting'"

The magistrate charged “Gertru” after questioning the former president of the Government about his “preparation of invoices”

Mirta Ojito, journalist and writer: "Those of us who leave a life behind have to reinvent ourselves. Your previous self died"

Emigration has marked the trajectory of this Cuban journalist based in Miami. At the age of 16, he left Havana with his family to start a new life in Florida. A Pulitzer-winning reporter, she is now making her debut as a novelist with 'The Memory of the Waves', a story in which her own experiences emerge.

Walking through the Leza River canyon, in La Rioja: vultures in the sky and dinosaurs on the ground

A network of paths encourages excursions between cliff walls that the water has sculpted next to Soto en Cameros, observing birds, butterflies, orchids and ichnites.

Raffaella Carrà's adopted son revives his legacy of solidarity with a foundation: “He wanted to help others without making noise”

The late artist chose Gian Luca Pelloni Bulzoni to continue her solidarity and cultural initiatives, a decision supported by her family. The person who was her assistant for 20 years has created an entity that bears the name of the Italian diva and that will be dedicated to helping young people without resources.

The oil from two varieties of olive that only exist in Galicia

Alma Meiga, a small family business from Castrelo de Miño (Ourense), produces a unique EVOO with wild and tame olives

The Gulf oil industry is working at full speed to recover energy supplies as soon as possible

The maritime authorities declare the passage through Hormuz safe while the producers ask their clients to come get the contracted crude oil. The barrel has dropped 15% in two weeks

“They offered me 20 liters of semen for a sculpture”: art, porn and fertility clinics

The Danish pavilion at the Venice Biennale, whose interior has been conceived by the Common Accounts studio, reflects on the success and marginality of pornography with the installation 'Things To Come'

The long audios that divide Spain

There are two types of Spaniards: those who defend long audio and those who do not. I am one of the first, especially because of my friends' voice notes.

The ultra wave threatens to overwhelm Colombia, the country that endured everything

The far-right Abelardo de la Espriella is the candidate with the most options to win the Colombian presidency this Sunday. His victory threatens to close the window of social reforms that the 2016 peace agreement opened. The country was already on the verge of becoming a failed state, hit by narcoterrorism, and still achieved a consensus Constitution in 1991. He was also able to stay away from military dictatorships. Now he faces a new threat: will he be able to avoid the wave of reactionary populism?

Zapatero y la mierda

No han cumplido con su deber de crear un sistema lo más invulnerable posible a la corrupción; y se lo hemos permitido