Spain
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.
By Stephania Taladrid
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.
By Louisa Thomas
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.
By Nick Romeo
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.
By Ronan Farrow
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.
By Jon Lee Anderson
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.
By Eren Orbey
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.
By Fergus McIntosh
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.
By Jon Lee Anderson
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.
By Stephania Taladrid
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.
By Giles Harvey
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.
By Stephania Taladrid
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.
By Sam Knight
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.
By John Cassidy
A Reporter at Large
The Airbnb Invasion of Barcelona
In the tourist-clogged city, some locals see the service as a pestilence.
By Rebecca Mead
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.
By Françoise Mouly and Genevieve Bormes
Dispatch
Spain’s Open Wounds
Decades after Franco’s regime, a new government and its citizens seek to unearth the crimes of the past.
By Stephania Taladrid