Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. With Catalonia approaching a momentous regional election on September 27, many in Spain agonize over the possibility of a ...

Introduction by the editors of Argelaga: The “Catalan Manifesto for the Social History of Town and Country”, by Miguel Amorós and Joan Carles Gelabertó, is a vindication of history as a weapon of ...

The crisis pitting Spain's government against leaders in Catalonia over an independence referendum banned by Madrid is but the latest episode of centuries of friction between this region and central ...

MADRID — Spain’s ruling Socialist party scored a crucial victory in regional elections in the powerful northeastern region of Catalonia, garnering the most seats and dealing a blow to the region’s two ...

Spain’s deepening political crisis came to a head Friday when the central government moved to dismiss the top leaders in Catalonia and dissolve the regional Parliament, an action taken not long after ...

The tensions laid bare between Catalonia and Spain’s federal government over Sunday’s referendum have a long and painful history that reaches back to the Franco era and beyond. But never since Spain ...

It is difficult to say when the current push for Catalan independence began, but this weekend’s regional elections have been cast as an imperfect plebiscite on whether or not the region in ...