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, ...

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 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 Greater Idaho Movement, a campaign for rural, conservative eastern Oregon to secede from the state and join Idaho, is calling on President-elect Trump to support its cause. The group sent to ...

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 ...

Footage of migrants surging across the southern border and trampling Texas National Guard members has "moved the needle" for residents in the Lone Star State to consider supporting the TEXIT movement, ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A break-away movement in far Northern California apparently sounded better in theory than in reality to voters in Tuesday’s primary. Residents of rural, sparsely populated ...

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 ...

San Fernando Valley business leaders reflect what many involved in the cityhood movement have said since the November election: secession is not a dead issue. A Valley Leadership Survey conducted by ...

A leading Texas nationalist group has warned Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador it will begin actively supporting secessionist movements in his country in response to what it argues is his ...

BARCELONA, Spain — A Spanish Supreme Court judge on Friday ordered five Catalan politicians to be detained without bail, a decision that reignited tensions in the region as the central government ...

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 ...