In the fifth episode of TNR’s soccer podcast, we discuss a shocking election in France, a predictable one in the U.K., and two exciting upcoming finals.

Pedro Almodovar’s new movie with Penelope Cruz is his most explicitly political.

A recent fracas in Spain shows that simply telling people to reduce meat consumption in the name of climate and personal health won’t work.

The coronavirus crisis has turned its member nations against each other.

Nancy Pelosi and other party leaders have been outflanked by opponents embracing big spending ideas to address the coronavirus recession.

The consternation over wildfires in Spain has made that particularly clear.

In Europe, governments are increasingly prosecuting people who help migrants.

Will the activists who organized the vote for Catalonian independence in 2017 be convicted of rebellion and sedition?

Iranian director Asghar Farhadi's films are driven by subtle social dynamics. Can he preserve them in a new thriller?

Cristiano Ronaldo's slap on the wrist for Spanish tax fraud belies the scale of the problem.

Spain's transition out of fascism occurred within living memory. And it meant ignoring the dead.

Can exhuming Francisco Franco make a Spanish Civil War monument less fascist?

Catalonia wants independence from Spain, but modern history is littered with cautionary tales about the dangers of partition.

The Nobel Prize–winning economist discusses Brexit, globalization, and the perils of austerity.