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.

Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. A new candidate for sheriff in Texas has pledged to support the state's secession from the union. In Bexar County, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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'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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...