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Instead of looking for signs of Spring — which are so numerous that one does not need to be Sherlock Holmes — I will spend the final days tracking down the signs of Winter that have still managed to survive. A column by Miguel Esteves Cardoso.
It is the nightmare of producers of fillers, prosthetics, extensions, makeup, and other disguises: having their own youth turn against them. A chronicle by Miguel Esteves Cardoso.
We are so afraid of what others think, so insecure, and have such a desire to always be highly desired, that we end up crushing our own soul. A column by Miguel Esteves Cardoso.
Our little head is a small thing – despite us always singing about the unexplored magnificence of the brain – and it needs all the help it can get. Chronicle by Miguel Esteves Cardoso
I had to look it up on the internet — always a good sign — where the Webster’s website defines a 'failson' as an incompetent son of a wealthy father who only gets by because of who his father is. A column by Miguel Esteves Cardoso.
We used new oak to create sweet notes, soften tannins and 'dress up' the wine to rapidly trigger dopamine in the brain. So much so that what should have been music turned into noise. Opinion by Catarina Cunha
Do the clouds realise the harm they're causing? Can't they go and rain somewhere else? It's not as if there aren't places on the planet that need water. Column by Miguel Esteves Cardoso.
In this opinion piece, Arlindo Oliveira highlights that Portugal shows the largest discrepancy between perceived corruption (high) and corruption measured by direct personal experience (low). The article analyses how this perception–experience gap affects public trust and the policy debate, and argues for targeted communication and policy responses to reconcile public perception with measured realities.
In 1994, when in Portugal politicians who lied and insulted were still obliged to resign, and there wasn't the farce there is today surrounding wine, I went to Vila Grande. Column by Pedro Garcias
It will never be known to what extent some victims of domestic violence may be influenced by this rhetoric and inadvertently find themselves affected. Column by Liliana Carona
We say that good things never return, that we should use our longing to appreciate the luck of having lived those moments. But they do return. Column by Miguel Esteves Cardoso
The greater risk is not that technology will think for us. It's that we give up thinking about it. Opinion piece by Pedro Patacho
Seguro and Ventura defended their respective territories well. But one is larger than the other, and it does not appear that the debate produced any significant change to the boundary between them. Opinion by Francisco Mendes da Silva
Some offences cannot be treated merely as individual expression, as they involve historical processes of dehumanisation and demand ethical responsibility. Opinion by José Luís Landeira.
The real question is not about banning or not banning, or about whether to use AI. The paradox is an old one: knowledge is not transmitted, it is constructed. That construction takes place from the inside out. Column by Filipa M. Ribeiro
Leo XIV is closely attentive to the turmoil of the modern world, including that within the Church itself. Opinion piece by Friar Bento Domingues O.P.
A breakdown unravels even the most prim-and-proper people. It disarms them. It takes them apart. It divides them into tiny pieces, like someone dismantling a monument made of Lego. Column by Miguel Esteves Cardoso.
What is most interesting is not the contrast between what remained with us and what was left behind, but the way each of us carries what happens to us. Column by Miguel Esteves Cardoso
Sufficiently inside to understand how things work; sufficiently outside not to be contaminated by them. Opinion by João Miguel Tavares
From the ground to the hand that breaks it, bread carries the flavour of the human condition. Column by André Barata
A commentary contrasting the choice to refuse to heed ignorance with the decision to welcome and celebrate diversity.
No one expects a former MP, still fresh from parliament, to turn on the party they represented or still represent — and here such 'claws' are often those of realism. Column by Ana Bárbara Pedrosa.
As in 'King Kong', the monster is always the monster, but it is only among us because of our own doing: we were the ones who went looking for it, we were the ones who put it on display, we were the ones who wanted to play with it.
In this analytical opinion piece Miguel Esteves Cardoso contends that our bodies often cope and recover on their own. He examines tendencies to overreact and overmedicalise everyday symptoms, arguing for measured self-care, patience and perspective—an approach especially pertinent to expatriates adjusting to different health norms.