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 ...

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 — ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE -- Sam Houston tried to tell Texans secession and joining the Confederacy wouldn't work. He warned of "rivers of blood," a generation left dead or crippled by war and ultimate defeat of the ...

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 ...