Secession fever is reigniting among fearful Staten Islanders who refuse to believe freshly inaugurated Mayor Mamdani’s ...

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 ...

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School districts in a growing number of U.S. states are trying to break off from existing districts. These "seceding" areas, as experts refer to the practice, tend to be wealthier and whiter than the ...

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?

The Issue: Staten Island politicians renewing calls for the borough to secede from New York City. Secession is not the best option for Staten Island (“NYC-Ya!” Aug. 31). As an independent county, we ...

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 ...

California’s famous chronicler Carey McWilliams once wrote that some see “this highly improbable state” as more illusion than reality. Perhaps that explains its residents’ perpetual efforts to shake ...

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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 ...

While lots of states are hopping on the Secession bandwagon now, threats to leave the Union have long been made in the United States, but rarely followed through on. 1. The first serious threat of ...