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The Ball Is Round, And Hate Knows No Limits

There is something curious about the internet: some people seem to believe that when a screen separates them from another person, their humanity can be switched off, too. Open social media, and you will find people confusing freedom of expression with permission to humiliate someone.

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✅🕒 Published on October 11, 2026 - 19:20

Security & Defense

Peace Cannot Erase The Dead

By Maria Raquel

The little girl’s sixth birthday was supposed to take place at the end of October. Instead of preparing for the occasion, her grandfather, Anatoliy Chumniy, was crying beside her body, recovered from the rubble of a residential building in Zaporizhzhia, southern Ukraine. She lay inside a white body bag. The war had interrupted a life before her family could celebrate another year of it.

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✅🕒 Published on October 10, 2026 - 17:37

Insights & Data

Who Pays For Wars? The Cost Of Impunity

By Maria Raquel

While leaders compete for power and influence, billions are spent on conflicts, international justice faces resistance, and entire populations pay the price of destruction.

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✅🕒 Published on October 9, 2026 - 15:57

Trending

Anne Carson Nobel: Literature Is Changing Shape

By Maria Raquel

When Anne Carson learned that she had won the Nobel Prize in Literature, she was not in a library surrounded by old books or sitting at a desk. She was in Iceland, listening to the wind. The 76-year-old writer, caught completely off guard by the call from the Swedish Academy, summed up the moment with little ceremony: “I think they’re all crazy.” Perhaps it is a fitting way to begin talking about Carson. The Canadian writer has just received the world’s highest literary...

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✅🕒 Published on October 8, 2026 - 17:52

Blogs

Messi Served The Ball. Ramon Wants To Serve Football

By Maria Raquel

Messi is gone. Not exactly from football, because that would be asking too much even from him, but from the Argentina national team. At 39, after 21 years wearing the Albiceleste shirt, the number 10 played his final match for Argentina.

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✅🕒 Published on October 8, 2026 - 11:41

Climate & Environment

When The Future Begins To Send Signals

By Maria Raquel

Curtis LaForche would understand. In Take Shelter, he begins having dreams and visions of storms that no one else seems able to see. He is not portrayed as an irresponsible or indifferent man. Quite the opposite: he is careful, hardworking and deeply concerned about his family. Still, he begins to question his own perception.

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✅🕒 Published on October 8, 2026 - 11:34

Culture & Society

The Universe We Learned To Listen To

By Maria Raquel

On Tuesday, October 6, the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Belgian physicist Francis Halzen for his decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin. The news might seem destined only for physicists. But there is a much more human story hidden inside that cubic kilometre of ice at the South Pole.

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✅🕒 Published on October 6, 2026 - 10:16

Blogs

Cristiano Ronaldo Left: And The Ball Kept Rolling

By Maria Raquel

Cristiano Ronaldo left Portugal’s training camp on September 30 after learning that Jorge Jesus did not intend to use him against Denmark. He spoke with the president of the Portuguese Football Federation, left the camp and said that, one day, he would tell the Portuguese people the truth about his departure.

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✅🕒 Published on October 2, 2026 - 18:22

Blogs

Women Football Learned To Play. Now It Needs To Learn How To Care

By Maria Raquel

There is something curious about football: everyone knows how to take care of a ball. It needs to be properly inflated, clean, in good condition and ready for the game. If someone leaves the poor thing too flat, the complaints begin. If the ball is not good enough, nobody thinks twice about getting another one.

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✅🕒 Published on September 29, 2026 - 17:51

Investigations

Trump Rejected The Deal. So Why Do The Talks Continue?

By Maria Raquel

Donald Trump said he had rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and halt the fighting. The statement was public, direct and seemingly definitive. But there was an uncomfortable detail buried in the same story: Iran said it had not yet officially received that rejection through the mediators.

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✅🕒 Published on September 28, 2026 - 10:15