The royal treatment is not what it used to be for Juan Carlos I of Spain. A half century ago, as a young king, he renounced the absolute powers that the dictator Francisco Franco had bestowed upon him...
12.11.2025 Nytimes.com and 1 sites
The alleged naps President Donald Trump appears to be taking during meetings are a reflection of how tired Americans are with his administration, a political commentator has suggested. Chauncey DeVega...
12.09.2025 Salon.com and 4 sites
MAGA pollster Mark Mitchell of Rasmussen Reports warned that President Donald Trump was “losing Republicans” because he wasn’t giving them “what we voted for. ” During a Monday interview with MAGA inf...
12.08.2025 Dnyuz.com and 2 sites
Counterfire writers recommend their favourites from this year with a mixture of the new, the classic, fiction and analysis Michael Lavalette Sam Dalrymple, Shattered Lands: Five Partitions and the Mak...
12.12.2025 Counterfire.org
The Italy that Elly Schlein dreams of would look a lot like Spain. Given the fiascos of Emmanuel Macron and the French socialists, the English Labor Party and the German Social Democrats, the Dem secretary, in her pantheon, next to Maurizio Landini reserved a place for a Mediterranean leader: Pedro Sanchez . Madrid economist, 53 years old, easy-going, pleasant. The number one of the Socialist Workers Party has been prime minister since 2018, when he ousted Mariano Rajoy and the People’s Party. A...
12.09.2025 Irishdentist.ie
All over the world democratic socialism failed in the face of ascendant fascism, as a fickle fascination with form saw “socialists” ally themselves to bourgeois republics. The many millions of dead ca...
12.08.2025 Leftvoice.org
While the history of punk rock scenes in places like the United States and the United Kingdom is well documented, it would be ignorant to assume these are the only places where punk rock made an impac...
12.08.2025 Dyingscene.com
In recent months, Spain has become an epicenter in the battle over Europe’s diminishing Christian identity. At stake is the fate of the Valle de los Caídos—the Valley of the Fallen—where the world’s l...
12.11.2025 Firstthings.com
During the Spanish Civil War, anti-fascist groups, including many who were allied with the Soviet Union, went into battle with the slogan “They shall not pass. ” Last month, on the 50 th anniversary o...
12.08.2025 Eurasiareview.com
We’re close to the end of the pre-Christmas work crunch. Close to hours and hours of unfettered, unstructured time. For reading? Right? Once you’ve finished eating and boozing and being merry and bright, that is. If you feel like getting extra-curric...
12.12.2025 Shortlist.com