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Europe April 5, 2018
Is Dutch Bad Boy Thierry Baudet the New Face of the European Alt-Right?
His apocalyptic rhetoric is a hit among voters anxious about national identity and suspicious of the EU.
Sebastiaan Faber
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Europe December 29, 2017
Catalonia’s Elections Take Spain Back to Square One
They made clear that the Spanish left lacks a convincing national project to counter the right’s reactionary, centralist patriotism.
Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín
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November 24, 2017
Spain’s Conflict Over Catalonia Is Covering Up Massive Political Corruption
Both the ruling PP party and Catalonia’s independentists are using the national question to whitewash their own history of corruption and enthusiasm for austerity.
Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín
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Civil Unrest October 4, 2017
The Spanish Government Just Energized Catalonia’s Independence Movement
The image of black-visored riot police clubbing peaceful citizens will long haunt Catalonia’s collective memory.
Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín
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Europe September 26, 2017
Have Spain and Catalonia Reached a Point of No Return?
The bitter struggle over an independence referendum has pushed the country into a grave constitutional crisis.
Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín
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Europe March 1, 2017
Has Spain’s Podemos Party Squandered Its Prospects?
While the Madrid-based leadership has been mired in factional infighting, regional representatives and allies offer inspiring alternatives.
Bécquer Seguín and Sebastiaan Faber
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Europe February 21, 2017
Why the Dutch Are Drawn to Right-Wing Populist Geert Wilders
He’s among the most radical of the new-right politicians in Europe—and he’s poised to win the March elections.
Sebastiaan Faber
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Europe November 4, 2016
Spain’s Socialists May Have Destroyed for Years the Chances of a Left-Wing Government
The party’s leaders would rather see continued right-wing rule than form a progressive coalition with Podemos.
Bécquer Seguín and Sebastiaan Faber
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Government August 11, 2016
Welcome to Sunny Barcelona, Where the Government Is Embracing Coops, Citizen Activism, and Solar Energy
The city that resisted Franco is looking to its radical past to build a progressive future.
Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín
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International Law July 18, 2016
Spaniards Confront the Legacy of Civil War and Dictatorship
Four decades after the transition to democracy, families victimized by Francoist repression have organized in a quest for justice.
Bécquer Seguín and Sebastiaan Faber