President Cyril Ramaphosa firmly states that South Africa will remain a united, sovereign nation, dismissing any ideas of ...

Republican lawmakers in Staten Island are renewing calls to secede from New York City following the election of Democratic socialist Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani. Proponents of secession argue Staten ...

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 ...

This story was originally published by Bridge Michigan, a nonprofit and nonpartisan news organization. Visit the newsroom online: bridgemi.com. MARQUETTE — In a region where some root for the Green ...

Here's a look back at the most noteworthy stories that took place in and around La Jolla throughout 2025 — big and small.

Following the United States Supreme Court's decision to reject Texas' lawsuit to overturn Joe Biden's presidential election victory, the chairman of the state's Republican party suggested leaving the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...