Beth Noveck (New Jersey, USA, 1971) makes it clear in each of her answers that she refuses to fall into defeatism. She offers solutions, gives examples of success, and argues that AI can help improve the functioning of institutions. And she knows what she's talking about, not only because she is an expert in how to use technology to make governments more open, but because she knows institutions from the inside: she was the first Chief Technology Officer of the United States during the administration of Barack Obama. She visits Barcelona to sponsor the presentation of the Pompeu Fabra University's 2026-2037 Strategy.

Former US President Barack Obama has sparked an unexpected headline this weekend: aliens "exist." He said this during a rapid-fire Q&A session on Brian Tyler Cohen's podcast, and the reaction has been so strong that Obama had to issue a statement clarifying that he hasn't seen "any evidence to support it."

The advice Michelle Obama gives her daughters Sasha and Malia on finding love is simple: have a very active love life. "I just want them to be open to people," Obama explained in an episode of the podcast. IMO with Michelle Obama and Craig Robinson. "What I did was go on a lot of dates. When Barack came along, I had experiences to compare him to." The Obamas met in 1988 and married in 1992.

Reed Brody (Brooklyn, 1953) has spent his life defending human rights around the world and pursuing dictators throughout Africa and Central and South America, but also denouncing the despotic leaders of the West thanks to his work at Human Rights Watch and the United Nations. He collaborated with the victims of the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and in Catch a dictator (Debate) explains the journey to condemn Chadian President Hissène Habré to life imprisonment. Brody spends much of the year in Barcelona with his partner, Catalan filmmaker Isabel Coixet.

Trump's first victory—then an unlikely candidate—was by a narrow margin. His second victory—after it became known what he wanted to do—was uncontested. Now the tariff war and other measures of the Trump administration may surprise us, but it's not credible that American voters are "primary" people who don't understand the consequences of their actions.

"When we think we write our readings, we are actually writing our lives," we read in Camera obscura cannon (Seix Barral), the new novel byEnrique Vila-Matas (Barcelona, ​​​​1948). The book, explained by someone who could be an android – the first to be incorporated into Vilamatian literature –, takes us into 48 hours of obsessive writing, motivated by the memory of a dead writer and the creation of a literary canon made from randomly chosen fragments of authors such as Robert Walser. Franz Kafka, Joseph Roth and Carlo Emilio Gadda.