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…clumsiness of the Spanish government’s handling of the affair, and the undercurrent of frustration with the high-handedness of the EU, the Spanish-Catalan dispute highlights a fundamental contradiction at the heart…

…an audible. They saw a pattern. If new arrivals to Massachusetts and Virginia gave thanks, then didn’t the Spaniards who founded St. Augustine, Florida, in the 1500s surely do the…

…have the C-SPAN logo emblazoned on one side. C-SPAN covered their infamous 2016 convention in Orlando, where the Libertarians nominated former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson for president, and a…

…Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent.” He has appeared on Fox News, C-SPAN, CNN, MSNBC, NPR, ABC World News Tonight, NBC Nightly News, and radio talk shows…

…the controversial poet the bridge is named after?” The Washington Post breathlessly asked. After summarizing Key’s life and begrudgingly recounting the inherent heroism of how Key authored “The Star-Spangled Banner”…

…myself, even when not at my best. Fat or fit, women are beautiful, and nurturing our sense of that is never a bad thing. Spanx launched in 2000, and actually…

…Serra founded nine Spanish missions in California. Father Serra served the Indians by evangelizing, educating, providing food and shelter, and even jobs. He was instrumental in teaching the Indians about…

…In brief, the ad features a multi-lingual rendition of “America the Beautiful” alongside brief scenes of the various flavors in our multi-cultural melting pot. The languages—English, Spanish, Tagalog (common among…

…because “this is what they themselves use.” Surely when they speak Spanish they do, I responded, but why are we going to take a phrase from Spanish and pluck it…

…Jewish Committee, among others, condemned the move. Even more significantly, there was a significant public outcry among Spaniards, the Spanish government, and Spanish media. The unexpectedly strong backlash had an…

…shows, Matthews puzzled aloud about their heritage: Is he trying to insinuate that Marco Rubio, a fellow … uh … Spanish surname, I’m not sure the right word is Hispanic…

…in this age of political firestorm, what transpired between Daniel Sickles and Philip Barton Key was distinctly personal. As Chris DeRose chronicles in his new and exciting book, Star Spangled…

M.G. Oprea recently noted in these pages that speaking in Spanish may have been one of the few things Jeb Bush got right in his ill-fated campaign for the presidency….

…were tuned in to everything Trump and Hillary Clinton were saying during his campaign, thanks to Spanish-language media. Relatives in the United States would immerse themselves and tell relatives back…

…is whether the Spanish government will let them take it. On Tuesday, Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont signed a declaration of independence from Spain, as expected. This came roughly a week…

…for his absurd line of questioning. The full text of the apology press release spanned eight sentences. Six sentences of excuses and justifications passed before Halperin issued his apology to…

…come in and be the judge and say, why did you spank that boy? You taught him, you have a right to spank him, and Malcolm X did some things,…

…Court on C-SPAN? Well, because there’s an important distinction between the legislative and judicial process. C-SPAN viewers can influence, and be influenced, by the things they see in our democratic…

…she violated House rules that “explicitly forbid official actions to be used for partisan political campaign purposes.” Jayapal, the group says, linked to C-SPAN’s coverage of an April hearing on…

…Hilaria Baldwin, Alec Baldwin’s wife, after it was revealed that she faked being a Spaniard for years. While the Times has preached against forms of cultural borrowing before, having recently…

…both cultural revolutions is national heritage. Far from a racist, Junipero Serra, a Franciscan, was a defender of Native Americans against violence and prejudice from Spanish government authorities. He served…

…walked to the center of the field and began singing “The Star-Spangled Banner.” I noticed that everyone around me, regardless of their skin color or what team’s jersey they were…

…the village church at Rañadorio, located in the northwest Spanish region of Asturias. The proprietress of the local tobacco shop, who fancies herself something of an artist, apparently got permission…

…deep in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Nearly every sign and advertisement is in Spanish, and nearly every person you meet will first address you in Spanish, which is as much the language…

…to a toss up after two GOP-sponsored polls indicated Salazar is in the lead. Politico reports that internal polls from both campaigns show the Spanish-speaking Republican either leads or is…

…that in a Republican debate you could be attacked for not speaking Spanish? Thus, when Cruz accused Rubio of secretly being soft on immigration in Spanish-language interviews—a debunked claim based…

…can. The Spanish Caravaggio Francisco de Zurbarán is often referred to as the Spanish Caravaggio, and for good reason. Like his somewhat older Italian contemporary, Zurbarán often employed a starkly…

…the Spanish colonial government in Cuba and assumed imperial ambitions by the end of the war. With the acquisition of the Philippines and other Spanish colonies, America for the first…

…had no idea who they were and did not speak Spanish.” Migrants encountered a non-Spanish speaker in America! What were they expected to do?! According to the latest Census data,…

…we had to hurry home. We ran and got inside … just as the speech ended. So I did what any normal mother would do. I pulled C-SPAN up on…

The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) claims that the cryptic Twitter exchange between upcoming presidential debate moderator Steve Scully of C-SPAN and anti-Trump advocate Anthony Scaramucci, in which Scully asked…

…two-hour zoom call between the two candidates, and would still be moderated by C-SPAN’s Steve Scully. Trump immediately rejected the idea which would only strip the president of the ability…

…African actuaries estimates that the net reduction in lifespan from increased unemployment and poverty due to a national lockdown will exceed the increased lifespan due to lives saved from COVID-19…

…at home” to speak of for the WHCD. It’s aired on C-SPAN, which was the butt of one of Willmore’s funnier jokes—”It is good to be on C-SPAN. I’m glad…

…turned off the C-SPAN cameras, Democrats were furious and cried out about the unfairness of having cameras taken away from them. But in 2008, Republicans opposed a motion to adjourn…

…of media oxygen for their arguments and tire them out over time, as there is often little desire among older senators to futilely rant at the C-SPAN cameras at three…