The Bay Area isn’t “Norcal.” Moving to Berkeley from my small town just two hours south of the Oregon border, I always found myself mocking the locals here for insisting they lived in Northern California. Containing around 1.7 million California residents in total, the rural counties of California have little in common with those located […]
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How Catalonia Can Help Itself and the Rest of Spain
In a Business Insider political piece, “Here’s why Catalonia should secede from Spain, and why it won’t” former Catalan MP Alfons López Tena argues in favor of Catalonia’s independence movement. In the article, he argues like many of his peers that the region deserves liberation from alleged Spanish tyranny. However, the claim that Catalonia should […]