Ten Years Later: Taking Stock of Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement This is a guest post by Aala Abdelgadir, research associate for the Council on Foreign Relation’s Civil Society, Markets, and ...

There's a big race right now to become the 51st state. Forget traditional contenders like Puerto Rico. In several existing states, residents of less populous areas are hoping to create new states of ...

I have been following the La Jolla secession scenario for some time now as it is slowly moving through the process of being ...

The New California flag is presented in February at a rally in support of the proposal to divide California into two states during a rally at the state Capitol. If you, like me, in recent days have ...

There can be no doubt that the relatively few Californians strongly interested in becoming an independent country have had high hopes that President Trump’s “War on California” would drive many new ...

Groups in Hollywood, the Harbor and the San Fernando Valley want to break up the City of Los Angeles. On Wednesday, the state's Local Agency Formation Commission, which must approve any such proposal ...

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. President Donald ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Staten Island plans to secede from New York City. For real this time. Maybe. Assemblymember Sam Pirozzolo, who declared Staten Island’s figurative independence in November, ...

Americans increasingly fantasize about a divorce between red and blue states—but they dread the thought of civil war. You can’t have one without the other. These two statements by men who’ve held the ...

Leaders of New York City’s “Forgotten Borough” — and most conservative enclave — are re-introducing stalled legislation for Staten Island to secede from what they fear will become the People’s ...

If you, like me, in recent days have wistfully considered a utopian fantasy where an economically powerful country of California breaks away from the chaos of a second Donald Trump presidency, then I ...