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Europe awaits its Milei moment

03-10-2026 00:04 Many European leaders would like to emulate Milei, but they know that most of their compatriots would rather not be told they would have to tighten their collective belts.

by James Neilson

Milei said in public what the UN walkout crowd says in private

29-09-2026 11:27 Javier Milei told the UN General Assembly that an uncomfortable truth beats a comfortable lie. The walkout Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faced the next day proved his point.

Fidget, fudge it, Budget

19-09-2026 00:34 National budgets only started with any regularity after the Constitution of 1853 when Argentina’s first elected president Justo José de Urquiza created the modern Economy Ministry in 1854.

by Michael Soltys

The eve of destruction, perhaps

19-09-2026 00:25 If the tech bros are right about what their research teams have devised, it is already too late to do anything to put AI back in a far more restrictive “sand box” than the ones from which it has managed to make a Houdini-like escape…

by James Neilson

We do need more education

11-09-2026 09:28 Argentine youngsters continue to fall farther and farther behind their peers in the rest of the world.

by James Neilson

The 9/11 terrorist attacks and our pending task as global community

11-09-2026 00:01 The fight against terrorism remains as relevant as ever and must be our shared responsibility.

by Marwan Gill

Thiel bought a house in Argentina – democracy left it empty

31-08-2026 16:40 The answer to Peter Thiel's scepticism about democracy is not to defend liberal democracy more loudly. It is to make it work well enough that citizens have compelling reasons to defend it.

Multiplying options

29-08-2026 06:08 Polarisation is far from inevitable when at least half of the 60-plus percent discontented with the current course of events are equally averse to a return to Kirchnerism.

Scenarios: Three possible paths to Argentina’s 2027 election

15-08-2026 10:22 Three scenarios, but one decisive factor: the economy.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Is Argentina a racist country? My testimony as a Muslim foreigner

10-08-2026 07:01 Argentina is a fine example of interfaith coexistence and a melting pot of different communities and waves of migration.

by Marwan Gill

In defence of Argentine culture and football

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by Agustino Fontevecchia

The return of the ugly Argentine

25-07-2026 04:34 Does the abuse being hurled against the country’s footballers by aggrieved foreigners whose national teams got knocked out early matter very much? It clearly does.

by James Neilson

As Milei’s aura fades, Argentina starts to look for a third way

13-07-2026 10:43 With President Milei’s popularity at its lowest level in more than two years, talk of the 2027 election has taken over investor trips and political circles. The question being asked is whether it might be the moment for a third way.

World Cup culture wars and the legend of Messi

11-07-2026 09:32 World Cups don’t occur in a vacuum. Rather, they are an integral part of the construction of cultural subjectivity across the globe given the prevalence and capillarity of football. Argentina’s central role in global football and its obsessed population add complexity and intensity.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Milei leans on the caste to seek re-election

04-07-2026 00:32 The arrival of Diego Santilli as Cabinet Chief signals a pragmatism that is both the result of a lack of trustworthy people in the ranks and Milei’s acknowledgment that he needs yet another dose of “caste” to align the means with the goals of his administration.

by Marcelo J. García

The digital choices shaping our children’s health

02-07-2026 10:55 Around the world, childhood is being reprogrammed by digital technologies that shape how young people learn, play and connect.

World Cup blues in Messi and Milei’s Argentina

20-06-2026 05:59 The World Cup provides partial reprieve for nearly six weeks, especially if Messi & Co are in it for a deep run. Politics, though, continues its course, and Adorni is coming up to the chopping block.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Host with the most

20-06-2026 05:45 Nothing unimportant is more important than football with its victories and defeats metaphors for life and death with nobody actually dying.

by Michael Soltys

Beyond Catholic Argentina: the nation’s new religious landscape

07-06-2026 07:45 Catholicism remains the largest religion, but rising secularism, generational change and growing diversity are reshaping how Argentines believe.

A robot oasis and billionaire’s playground in Argentina?

06-06-2026 07:02 Milei’s self-proclaimed anarcho-capitalist libertarianism seems totally aligned with the idea of generating a robot oasis and a billionaire’s playground in Argentina.

by Agustino Fontevecchia