It is a telling and quirk of linguistic sociology that it took a bloody civil war to convince the bulk of Americans to shift from referring to the United States as a singular, rather than plural, ...

A movement advocating for Texas to secede from the US is gaining attention. The movement's de facto leader told BI that Texans are "sick and tired of being crushed." Critics argue that secession is ...

The Texas Nationalist Movement has long dreamed about winning Lone Star independence. And, earlier this month, movement members celebrated a move that they believe will help make that dream a reality.

More than 30 years ago, a group of southwest Kansas counties tried to secede and form their own state called West Kansas. It’s largely forgotten now, but the political divisions that caused it remain.

On June 1, President Trump announced that the United States was withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement. His action drew predictable condemnation from our allies in the developed world. Less ...

A new proposal would have a county in northern California secede and become its own state, with the local activist behind the effort calling for residents to have their way of life restored and ...

Secession movements in places like eastern Oregon continue to make headlines today, but back in the 1990s, parts of western Kansas made an effort to secede that previewed the political divisions that ...

A secession plan known as the “Greater Idaho Movement” is gaining momentum in Oregon as some residents feel they no longer belong in the liberal-run state and would be better served by their neighbor ...

Despite a lack of past success, Upstate legislators, organizations and state residents continue to push for secession from downstate New York. The latest secession movement comes in the form of a ...

Sanford Levinson maintains that a peaceful breakup would be preferable to a divided polity, while Tarence Ray argues that the working class must remain united across state lines. I am a lawyer and a ...

Utilizing interdisciplinary and multimethodological approaches, this essay explores women’s roles in buttressing the political cohesion of secessionist movements in postcolonial Africa. It argues that ...

CALGARY — My father, a native of the small coastal town of Kanya Kumari deep in southern India, wanted to come to Canada — not the U.S. — to pursue his higher studies. He arrived in 1968 to complete ...