Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella said growing opposition to Mayor Zohran Mamdani's socialist agenda has ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Republican from Georgia, wants a “national divorce.” In her view, another Civil War is inevitable unless red and blue states form separate countries. But all this ...

On Saturday, thousands of Texas Republicans approved a new platform at the 2022 party convention in Houston, and it immediately caused a furor. In addition to a number of controversial policy planks, ...

With all fifty states offering petitions to the central government to leave the Union, the legality of secession is now front page news in the United States. Can a state legally secede from the Union?

In an increasingly divided United States of America, a radical solution to resolve fraught political differences is gaining momentum: secession. Be it the campaign for Texas to quit the US and form ...

Independence movements are on the march in many Western countries, but the secessionists who have been making news in the US since last month's election are not, realistically, going anywhere.

The Balkinization site is running a symposium on two important new books on secession: Timothy William Waters's Boxing Pandora: Rethinking Borders, States, and Secession in a Democratic World (Yale ...

A group of West Australian Liberals has put secessionism back on the agenda, with a renewed push for the state to consider becoming an independent nation. This week's WA Liberal conference will ...

Los Angeles voters spurned both San Fernando Valley and Hollywood secession proposals Tuesday, deciding overwhelmingly to keep the nation’s second-largest city intact. In the Valley, the spawning ...

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