In this Friday, Sept. 25, 2015 file photo, pro independence supporters wave "estelada" or pro independence flags during a rally of "Junts pel Si" or "Together for YES" in Barcelona, Spain. The ...

(Above: His inauguration had a lot of Californians calling for secession from the United States.) I consider the politics of the Spanish-speaking world to be the most rewarding subject of study on the ...

Opponents of “Calexit,” as the California “autonomy” or independence movement is known, can learn a lot from the turmoil created by so far unsuccessful efforts of the Kurdistan area of Iraq and the ...

In a year when protests against federal government has become as fashionable in California as board shorts, the protests on the last Saturday of September stood out. They were for the right of ...

The Madrid government sacked Catalonia‘s president and dismissed its parliament on Friday, hours after the region declared itself an independent nation in Spain’s gravest political crisis since the ...

GEORGE ORWELL, a British writer, fought in the trenches in the Spanish civil war to defend Catalonia from General Franco. He would surely be saddened by what is going on in that beautiful, cultured ...

Long ago when traveling through Europe, a friend developed what he called the “Alan Rule” because I never remembered the Celsius-to-Fahrenheit conversion math: 10 degrees Celsius, wear a coat; 20 ...