The fear that our past will divide us has returned. Franco, in death, lingers on, a ghost that haunts the living of Spain. In ...

The Spanish autocrat was a cruel man. But his country was not worse off for having him as its leader.

Former foreign office minister Dr Kim Howells talks about the dangers from Russia following the sentencing of former Reform leader in Wales, Nathan Gill for taking Russian bribes. The Institute for ...

The left lauded Nov. 20, when Francisco Franco was declared dead after his family removed life support, as a bright day for ...

It was worker-led class struggle that brought the end of the fascist regime in Spain, but its legacy remains embedded in the ...

On Nov. 20, 1998, Zarya, the first module that would make up the International Space Station, was launched from Kazakhstan.

The generalissimo died 50 years ago. A historian argues that he gets a bum rap in Spain.

Academic history denies that Franco’s fascism, but the violence and antisemitism of his war in, and then rule over, Spain ...

American right-wingers have quietly boy-crushed on Franco since at least William F. Buckley Jr. in the 1950s, who assured his readers that the Spanish caudillo was “an authentic national hero” who was ...

Tampa Bay Rays shortstop Wander Franco attends his trial on charges of sexual abuse of a minor in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, on June 23, 2025. The court of appeals in Puerto Plata, where the ...