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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Canada has found itself in the headlines this year for reasons the nation would rather avoid. President Trump mocked then-Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him “the governor of America’s 51st ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Protests against ICE and military activity in Los Angeles have put California squarely in opposition to the federal government, as the National Guard and Marines have been sent to ...

A pro-secession sign just outside Fox, Oregon. (Matt Vasilogambros/Stateline) The idea of Greater Idaho — splitting off most of eastern Oregon to join with the ...

There can be no doubt that the relatively few Californians strongly interested in becoming an independent country have had high hopes that President Trump’s “War on California” would drive many new ...

New York’s upstate secession movement is not going away anytime soon. There have been bills introduced in the state Legislature, and upstate business interests periodically fan the flames of this ...