How the Fight Over Spain’s Anti-Fascist Legacy Involves a Former ‘Nation’ Editor

Spain’s progressive government is protecting the tomb of Julio Álvarez del Vayo, foreign minister for the Republic during the Civil War and later a Nation editor. Spain’s right wing? They call him a terrorist.

Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín

Why Don’t Internationalists Care About Yemen?

Saudi-led airstrikes are creating hundreds of Guernicas a month in northern Yemen.

Juan Cole

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

A Brutal Account of Colonialism in Africa Just Showed Up in the Most Unlikely of Places: Hollywood

Bet you didn’t know the latest Tarzan movie was based on this story.

Adam Hochschild

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.

Sebastiaan Faber and Bécquer Seguín

The Untold Story of the Texaco Oil Tycoon Who Loved Fascism

Franco’s fuel supplier didn’t live in Berlin or Rome. He lived in New York, and he worked in the Chrysler Building.

Adam Hochschild

July 18, 1936: The Spanish Civil War Begins

“Not a method of keeping out of war but the establishment of a warless world must be our goal.”

Richard Kreitner

Memory Politics: On ‘Franco’s Crypt’

To what extent does Franco’s rule still dictate contemporary Spanish culture?

Jonathan Blitzer

Slide Show: A Secret Archive: Images From the Mexican Suitcase

The Nation

A Secret Archive: On the Mexican Suitcase

The 4,500 images in the recently discovered Mexican Suitcase deepen our understanding of photojournalism as well as the complexities of the Spanish Civil War.

Dan Kaufman