Francisco Franco

The expert is stepping away from teaching after a lifetime spent researching and writing about Franco, the Spanish Civil War and the violence of the 20th century. He warns that the values forged in the aftermath of World War II and in rejection of its atrocities are beginning to erode. The danger, he argues, comes not only from fascism but also from a technological oligarchy that may undermine society’s ability to agree on what is true

On the 90th anniversary of the coup d’état against the Second Republic, EL PAÍS explores one of the largest audiovisual archives on the war and analyzes how the conflict was covered on the big screen

Denmark’s pavilion at the Venice Biennale reflects on the success and marginalization of pornography with the installation ‘Things To Come’

The fifth and final volume of ‘M’ concludes 3,000 pages on the life of the Italian dictator and questions his ideological legacy at a time when the movement is making a comeback

Over 600,000 people have received around €22.2 billion over the past 50 years in pensions and compensation, according to a report by the government’s technical commission

The Cantacronache group documented the hidden popular resistance to the regime in two albums and a book, unleashing an angry media offensive from the Spanish government that reached Italy and the Vatican

New generations are asserting their rights, still marked by a past of persecution and stigma. But political participation remains an unfulfilled promise

A new study by geneticists who examined the graves of ‘stolen’ newborns dispels the notion of organized trafficking rings between 1950 and 1990. Instead, they point at Francoist centers for single mothers who pressured them into giving babies up for adoption

The scholar has published a book about mounted soldiers in conflicts between 1860 and 1945, from Custer to the Waffen-SS

The 1976 coup in Argentina forced thousands of people to flee. Those who experienced it tell their stories 50 years later

The drive to erect enormous structures that reject modernity has united technology investors and the White House

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced that the government will release a trove of classified documents about 23-F ‘to settle a debt with citizens.’ Questions remain about the role played by former king Juan Carlos I, about the support shown by the army, and the extent of civilian involvement

The veteran politician, who is preparing his bid for the State Duma after being barred from the 2024 presidential elections, seeks to ‘overcome the post-imperial syndrome and bring Russia back into Europe’

The letter found in the El Rastro flea market in Madrid demands 9,000 pesetas from the dictator and reveals that he paid one and a half million for ‘Portrait of the Marchioness of Santa Cruz’

Unpublished documents from MoMA shed light on the mysteries of a famous episode of artistic censorship in the post-war period

Author of the canonical biography of the dictator, the British historian has spent more than half a century immersed in the study of the Civil War, the dictatorship and the Transition

Royal families are going through a rough patch. Various controversies are plaguing those of Spain, the United Kingdom, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway, and Denmark. The media is no longer silent, and public opinion is more critical

EU member states have failed to reach consensus on the risks of maintaining time according to geography

Among voters of the mainstream conservative Popular Party (PP), more people believe the dictatorship was ‘good’ than ‘bad.’ And 61% of far-right Vox voters believe the democratic system is worse or much worse than Francoism ever was

Historian Enrique Faes uncovers a case hidden in the archives for 60 years: a real-life detective tale involving tax evasion, secret codes and a Swiss bank employee who sought out wealthy clients in post-war Spain

The former partner of a conservative strategist in the US through whom she met Donald Trump, the 25-year-old gained visibility at the demonstration organized by Tommy Robinson. ‘It would be an honor to get involved in politics’

A handful of letters scattered in archives in Castellón, Paris, New York, and California reveal the existence of an intricate machinery that provided aid to intellectuals interned in French concentration camps

EL PAÍS features the stories of three American families who arrived in the European country this year, in the face of the US’ downward spiral and the loss of freedoms: ‘Things are getting ugly’

‘The real deception lay in the impossibility of paying for the return ticket,’ says Natalia Ortiz, a researcher of these expeditions that provided domestic service for Australian families

Washington is preparing to authorize major investments by its companies in the former Spanish colony, where Morocco claims sovereignty despite its UN status as a non-self-governing territory

The Princeton professor, author of ‘Sex is a Spectrum: The Biological Limits of the Binary,’ reflects on human diversity and the ideological impositions that simplify the variety of genes, gonads and genitals