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As politicians dither, the threat of default spreads from Greece to Spain and Italy.

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

Varamo is the latest novel-in-translation from Argentina’s slipperiest living writer.

The movement isn’t about reforming capitalism, it’s about creating a democracy that’s incompatible with capitalism.

An interview with Jonathan Schell, the unlikely oracle of Occupy Wall Street, on revolution, non-violent protest and more.

The eurocrisis fully exposes the folly of deficit mania in a time of recession. So why are the GOP candidates still oblivious?

The Spanish Supreme Court has effectively ended the career of the judge who dared to revisit the crimes of the Franco era. But the real losers are those who relied on him to defend human rights, from Spain to Guantánamo.

Not really. But debates on rising inequality are now de rigueur at the World Economic Forum.

El País, Público and Spain’s Second Transition.

With their emphasis on participatory direct democracy, the anarchists behind Occupy Wall Street have changed the very idea of what politics could be.