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Topic: Catalan independence

Carles Puigdemont (Getty/Michele Tantussi)

Catalan leader on the new nationalism

Thomas S. Harrington
Carles Puigdemont (Getty/Odd Andersen)

Exclusive: A president in exile

Thomas S. Harrington
Iraqi Kurds fly Kurdish flags during an event to urge people to vote in the upcoming independence referendum in Arbil, Iraq, on September 22, 2017. (Getty/Safin Hamed)

Can there be a "second Israel"?

Adam Valen Levinson
Demonstrators shout as thousands protest the Catalan government's push for secession from the rest of Spain (AP/Emilio Morenatti)

The Catalan crisis: What is a nation?

Patrick Lawrence
People clash with Spanish Guardia Civil guards outside a polling station. (Getty/Raymond Roig)

What went wrong in Catalonia?

Mireia Triguero Roura