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La Marea speaks with author Jorge Dioni López, who argues that digital porn reflects and reinforces modern capitalism, reshaping masculinity and normalizing emotional detachment. Pornography, he says, is both a symptom and a driver of today’s cultural and social malaise.
Nothing in cities and spaces is random. Bathroom lines, street names, and the maps we use every day also tell a story of inequality. Feminist geography seeks to make visible what is often overlooked and proposes a more equitable way of inhabiting space.
Becoming a parent doesn’t just change your life — it rewires your brain. Science is showing that both mothers and fathers experience profound neurological shifts, with emotional, mental, and social consequences that go far beyond biology.
AI is here whether we like it or not. But who owns it, and who gets to use it, are questions that are far from being settled.
Since the start of the Russian invasion, Ukrainian surrogacy clinics have expanded their market to China and the Arab countries and have increased the range of services, including births in Greece, Cyprus and Georgia.
You may have never felt so lost — and so guilty — as when you started to sense that something wasn’t right with that friend who loved you so much.
To be a stepmother or stepfather is to arrive late to a story that has already begun, yet still choose to help write a new chapter. It means adding another emotional thread to a family, without erasing what came before. It is a kind of bond that is becoming more common in today’s families and is finally starting to be acknowledged.
In this deeply personal account, journalist Ignacio Pereyra looks back on his journey through desire, fear and what a moment in Vigo some 20 years ago taught him about the silence of masculinity.
Extreme weather and climate events have severely affected the two largest coffee producers on the planet, Brazil and Vietnam. Here’s how climate change is fueling the surge in prices.
Amid global crises, political disillusionment, and economic precarity, younger generations are redefining nihilism as a coping mechanism and a consumer trend.
From the Boom generation to the “padritores” of Latin writers, it isn’t that men are incapable of emotional reflection, but that the spaces to do so simply don’t exist.
Two wars in two different countries, at different times, have left indelible marks and scars on Yaser Abdelgabar Carballar and his family: the Spanish Civil War on his mother’s side, and the ongoing war in Sudan on his father’s side. In this essay, Carballar reflects on the damage and uselessness of violence, and how economic and political interests destroy the lives of millions of people.
A Spanish court has quashed a rape conviction against a Barcelona soccer star, describing it as based, technically speaking, on evidence that was not compelling. This can only further discourage women already daunted by having to take an aggressor to court.
Pollution and climate change have prompted some cities to convert into more sustainable and liveable spaces. But these same policies can widen social inequality. How can cities fix this paradox?
Irene was calling: “Lorenzo ate a small yellow berry from those plants that are everywhere. It’s toxic. The pediatrician says we should go to the ER.” And thus begins our father’s latest tale.
For centuries, sensory isolation has been used as a tool to achieve deep meditative states. With noise and light pollution growing around us, seeking profound silence and darkness may be the ultimate balm for modern times.
The Canary island of Fuerteventura is a popular seaside tourist destination, but further inland are the remains of Spain’s dark past of LGBTQ+ persecution during the regime of dictator Francisco Franco.
American crayfish, introduced to Spain in the 1970s, have decimated Iberian crayfish populations. However, experts debate reintroducing Iberian crayfish, as they too may not actually be native to the region.
Created in 1984 by Spanish toymaker Feber, Chabel fashion dolls were an icon of her era and a favorite among Spanish girls before production stopped in 1992. Now, Chabel is back.
Public broadcaster TV3 in the Spanish region of Catalonia has decided to air Dragon Ball, a ’90s anime classic that marked an entire generation in the autonomous community of Spain. But despite its cultural significance at the time — as the first series broadcast in the Catalan language — Dragon Ball’s return seems more like a comfortable wink to the past than a brave commitment to the future.
As ski seasons grow increasingly shorter and irregular, the Cetursa company and Andalusia Regional Government are asking to extract twice as much water from the Monachil River to produce more artificial snow for the Sierra Nevada resort. The official argument is that this will have no environmental impact. Experts disagree.
Spain has become an international mecca for fertility treatments. Yet in an industry where medicine, business, social pressure and life projects overlap, some are raising concerns over what they say is aggressive advertising, misinformation, obstacles to stopping egg freezing and procedures ending in unbearable debt.
As Spain prepares to mark the 50th anniversary of dictator Francisco Franco’s death and the return of democracy, fascism is returning around the world. It’s proof, as philosopher Walter Benjamin said, that nothing that has once happened should be considered lost to history.
How can we transcend the anonymity of numbers? How can we preserve moments of love, resilience and defiance against oppression. Egyptian filmmaker and writer Basel Ramsis reflects on human connection, memory and the fight against dehumanization.
Thanks to the many citizen science projects that exist today, all of us who make up the social fabric can actively contribute to scientific knowledge and sustainable development.
As concerns grow over the risks of social media and technology on young people, a new and largely unregulated digital frontier is emerging: interactions with artificial intelligence. Platforms like Character.AI allow users to create AI-generated characters that seem human, prompting critical questions about how these virtual experiences affect our understanding of reality and relationships.
Mountain chalets transformed into dance floors, festive restaurants at ski resorts, giant festivals on the slopes. The party craze has taken over the mountains — a phenomenon that is revolutionizing the winter sports business.
In Spain and beyond, Duralex plates and glasses have been part of the lives of different generations. So when workers of the French tempered glass manufacturer took over the emblematic company a few months ago, turning it into a cooperative to save it from bankruptcy, Spanish media took note.
Malaga has announced plans to ban the registration of new holiday accommodation in up to 43 neighborhoods of the city, joining a long list of Spanish municipalities fighting mass tourism and its impact on real estate and rent prices.
November 9 marks 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Once seen as a step toward open borders, walls and fences now span a quarter of the world’s land borders today. It’s central to what’s being called the “rebordering” among nations around the world.
The city of Valencia has not been affected by the natural disaster that caused more than 200 deaths in eastern Spain, but the region’s capital city is not the same. And the population is struggling to find a new balance.
The International Festival of Performing Arts Temporada Alta is hosting the Spanish premiere of this European project that explores our links with nature and the landscape.
The natural disaster in Valencia is the reflection of a great societal failure, the result of the lack of public policies in organizing a sustainable and balanced model of life.
The Vilcabamba, the Atrato or the Whanganui have achieved recognition as living entities with rights. More and more rivers are achieving this type of legal protection (and respect). In Spain, the Tins was the first river to have its rights recognized.
A research project is collecting ice cores from glaciers and icefields before they melt way. The aim is to study both the past and possible future of humanity’s impact on the world’s climate.
Eco-disaster fiction has changed since Soylent Green, one of Hollywood’s first eco-disaster films, came out in 1973; there has been an evolution from catastrophic fatalism to a certain optimism, with TV series like The Last Of Us.
Setting mountaineering speed records is a way for trail runners to add their names to history books to stay in the spotlight now that almost all the world’s mountains have already been climbed. But this desire to push limits is not ecological — even for a man who recycles or foregoes airplane travel.
When Mexico’s new president, Claudia Sheinbaum, chose not to invite King Felipe VI to her inauguration, Spain could have reacted differently. It could have taken the opportunity to evaluate its colonial past and apologize to the native peoples of the Americas. But imperial nostalgia and a conflictual relationship with diversity are leaving Spain in the past.
The prize-winning García Márquez library in Barcelona has joined the ranks of the Catalan city’s designer buildings, showing with its runaway popularity the enduring appeal of civilizing, communal spaces.
Russia’s annexation of Crimea, in 2014, warned Europe over a changing geopolitical scenario and the bloc’s vulnerability in terms of security. Now, the war in Ukraine has pushed EU member states to strengthen their defense policies and reopened the debate over the need for a European army.