Oregon’s conservative western counties want to break away from their deep-blue state and become part of the solidly red state of Idaho. They are asking President-elect Donald Trump to help make it ...

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 ...

For two weeks in April, the top movie in America explored what would happen if Texas and California seceded from the United States. The answer, as foreshadowed in the title Civil War, was brutal ...

In a video posted to his PAC’s YouTube account, Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) defends Gov. Rick Perry’s (R-Tex.) discussion of secession: “After the Civil War, nobody believes there is a so-called right to ...

J. Mark Powell is a novelist, former TV journalist and diehard history buff. Have a historical mystery that needs solving? A forgotten moment worth remembering? Please send it to HolyCow@insidesources ...