Cohen is the author of the new book Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court's 50-Year Battle for a More Unjust America It’s beginning to feel a lot like the 1860s — and not just because Steven Spielberg ...

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 ...

Following the election, there’s been a petition on the White House website for Texas’ secession. On his show Tuesday night, Sean Hannity spoke with the president of the Texas Nationalist Movement, ...

Texas secessionists haven’t been this giddy since Edward Clark was governor and the first shot of the Civil War was fired in Fort Sumter, S.C. In the wake of the Nov. 5 elections, Daniel Miller — ...

HOUSTON — In the two weeks since President Barack Obama's re-election, Republicans around the country have been wondering how to proceed. Some conservatives in Texas have been asking a far more ...

A group that advocates for Texas to declare independence from the United States celebrated the election of several Republicans to the state House this week. The Texas Nationalist Movement said 190 ...

Before this asinine idea gets any more traction, there needs to be a study of what this would actually cost Texas. On Day One of a Texas secession, the U.S. government would shut down all federal ...

Republican Texas Governor Rick Perry is invoking the threat of Texas secession over the stimulus bill. (Not to be outdone, former Republican House Majority Leader Tom Delay has joined in, albeit in ...

In the wake of Britain’s historic vote to leave the European Union - nicknamed "Brexit" - speculation of a Texit on the horizon have cropped up once again. The secessionist movement has a long history ...

In a meeting of secession-enthusiasts inside a Moscow hotel over the weekend, separatists agreed that “Texit” would be beneficial to the Kremlin. “The more the West is disunited, the more beneficial ...

The campaign to have Texas secede from the U.S. has been a long struggle with little to show for it so far beyond helping to torpedo Rick Perry’s presidential hopes, and as it turned out Perry was ...

Texas, as a slave-holding state that in 1860 contained about 200,000 enslaved people, was not immune to the bitterness that ...