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Hitchcock delighted in manipulating the audience. Early on Luis Buñuel learned to be satisfied with amusing himself.

El País, Público and Spain’s Second Transition.

How the occupied became the occupiers.

Mariano Rajoy’s right-wing party crushed the socialists, but Spain’s fate depends more on bond traders and central bankers than its cabinet.

The massive popular protests that shook the globe this year have much in common, though most of the reporting on them in the mainstream media has obscured the similarities.

Visiting occupations in New York, Madrid, London and beyond, one finds almost eerie similarities, but also important differences.

A letter of thanks to Mohammed Bouazizi, the young man whose death set off a year of revolutions.

The task of our time is to insist that we can afford to build a decent society—while at the same time, respect the real limits to what the earth can take.

The task of our time is to insist that we can afford to build a decent society—while at the same time, respect the real limits to what the earth can take.

As prisoners in California resume their hunger strike, it’s important to consider what legal strategies might end the cruel practice of long-term solitary confinement.