Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secession movements in places like eastern Oregon continue to make headlines today, but back in the 1990s, parts of western Kansas ...

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.

A new candidate for sheriff in Texas has pledged to support the state's secession from the union. In Bexar County, Sheriff Javier Salazar is facing competition from Nathan Buchanan. The challenger, a ...

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 ...

Ten Years Later: Taking Stock of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement This is a guest post by Aala Abdelgadir, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relation’s Civil Society, Markets, and ...

PRINEVILLE, Ore. – Tens of thousands of rural, conservative eastern Oregon residents are so frustrated with their liberal urban neighbors they've decided they can no longer even share a ZIP code. "I ...

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 ...

There's a big race right now to become the 51st state. Forget traditional contenders like Puerto Rico. In several existing states, residents of less populous areas are hoping to create new states of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. PRINEVILLE, Ore. – Tens of thousands of rural, conservative eastern Oregon residents are so frustrated with their liberal urban ...