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Q. & A.

How Soccer Players Re-Started Spain’s #MeToo Movement

A journalist describes the history of feminist activism in Spain and why the World Cup controversy marks a new phase.
The Sporting Scene

The Kissing Scandal After Spain’s Women’s World Cup Win

The support for a player who endured an unwanted kiss during the trophy presentation shows how attitudes toward women’s soccer are changing, but not fast enough.
Currency

How Mondragon Became the World’s Largest Co-Op

In Spain, an industrial-sized conglomerate owned by its workers suggests an alternative future for capitalism.
A Reporter at Large

How Democracies Spy on Their Citizens

The inside story of the world’s most notorious commercial spyware and the big tech companies waging war against it.
Daily Comment

Why Spain Was Long in Denial About Franco—and Still Stands By Columbus

When President Biden proclaimed that Columbus Day would also be Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the right reacted as if the country’s national identity were at stake.
Photo Booth

What a Group of Young Migrant Men Want the Camera to See

Felipe Romero Beltrán’s series shows North African youths at an internment facility as they laze, play, and perform for his lens.
The New Yorker Documentary

A Dancer’s Disruption of Conservative Flamenco Culture

In “Flamenco Queer,” Manuel Liñán plays with gender, transforming both his appearance and a traditional art.
Daily Comment

Juan Carlos’s Fall from Grace in Spain and the Precarious Future of the World’s Monarchies

Whether from the onward march of Western-style secularism and global consumer culture or from public revulsion at the kinds of corruption that social media helps reveal, monarchy seems under increasing threat of extinction.
News Desk

How Spain’s Coronavirus-Infection Rate Became One of the World’s Highest

On March 8th, tens of thousands of people in Spain gathered at events and protests en masse. The next day, the number of coronavirus cases in the country doubled.
Personal History

Tabula Rasa

A Critic at Large

Why a Champion of Reparative Justice Turned on the Cause

The writer Javier Cercas helped launch Spain’s historical-memory movement. In his new book, he asks whether score-settling and sanctimony have come to distort the nation’s past and poison its future.
Daily Comment

Franco’s Body Is Exhumed, as Spain Struggles to Confront the Past

The controversy surrounding the Valley of the Fallen, the mausoleum that housed Franco’s remains, has as much to do with its past as with its present.
Letter from the U.K.

Why European Soccer Is Damned and Thrilling at the Same Time

It is a paradox of the world’s greatest sport that its results have become so boring.
Our Columnists

The Center-Left Finds Life in Spain

In Sunday’s general election in Spain, the moderate P.S.O.E., led by Pedro Sánchez, emerged as the largest party in parliament after previously losing ground to populist movements.
A Reporter at Large

The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona

In the tourist-clogged city, some locals see the service as a pestilence.
Culture Desk

Life Size: A Day in the City

When Sergio García Sánchez, a Spanish comic-book artist, was given the opportunity to fill a whole room in a museum, he turned to his iPad and decided to sketch, in black-and-white, a single day in a bustling city.
Dispatch

Spain’s Open Wounds

Decades after Franco’s regime, a new government and its citizens seek to unearth the crimes of the past.
Our Columnists

Barcelona’s Experiment in Radical Democracy

Replay

World Cup 2018: The Dishonest Hips of Andrés Iniesta

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