Martin Baron (Tampa, 1954) has participated in one way or another in the obtaining of seventeen Pulitzer Prizes and has been director of theMiami Herald, heBoston Globeand theWashington Post. In it Post He experienced tensions with Donald Trump and the newspaper's purchase by Amazon owner Jeff Bezos, who tried to maintain his independence.

On Sunday, in the dossier, we analyze the countervailing powers in the United States to examine the role of Donald Trump and his administration, unofficially led by Elon Musk. We interview Martin Baron, a leading figure in American journalism and former editor of the Washington Post, who reflects on the role of the press. We also focus on the few well-known figures who have spoken out against Trump.

Ann Telnaes was one of the star cartoonists of the Washington Post. One day in early January, the Pulitzer Prize-winning ninotaire saw one of her drawings rejected. It featured a handful of billionaires kneeling, reverenced by a giant statue of Donald Trump, then president-elect. They included Meta founder Mark Zuckerberg; Sam Altman of OpenAI; Patrick Soon-Shiong, owner of Los Angeles Times, and Mickey Mouse, the emblem of Walt Disney. And also Jeff Bezos, owner of Amazon and –this is the most relevant– of Washington Post Telnaes knew that her cartoon would upset the newspaper's editors and probably wanted to see if the freedom of expression—of opinion—she had enjoyed since its debut in the newspaper's pages in 2008 remained the same or had diminished. The editor in charge of the newspaper's opinion pages, David Shipley, returned the cartoon. And she responded by folding it and recounting what had happened in a text on the Substack network. He spoke of a "tipping point" and warned that what's happening is dangerous.