Lincoln was a crony capitalist on economic policy, advocating protectionist tariffs, corporate welfare for railroad ...

Increased costs – from higher Medicaid, K-12 education and pension costs – could negate potential positives from adding population, experts say.

New England’s secession prospects collapsed with it. Fast-forward 45 years to Dec. 20, 1860, when South Carolina cut its ties with Washington. Ten other Southern states and parts of two others ...

A 90-minute walking tour details the city’s role in promoting slavery throughout the South and the driving force of faith to survive and triumph over it.

Southern California Edison (SCE), a subsidiary of Edison International , said on Thursday that it was probing whether its ...

Could the Golden State just fly the coop, become its own nation and walk away from 175 years of union with the United States ... regional water reservoirs in Southern California are at historic ...

The counties, which are largely in central and southern Illinois, have expressed frustration by ... of Chicago and Downstate ...

California might leave the United States and become a free and independent country. The idea of California becoming its own ...

The State of South Carolina has seceded from the Union by an unanimous vote of her Legislature, and it now remains to be seen whether any of the other Southern States will follow her example ...

For every action, says one principle of both physics and politics, there is a reaction. So when President Donald Trump threatened to put conditions on disaster aid in the wake of California’s ...

The holidays were adopted by states across the South during the ... Union forces against the South as tensions rose around Southern secession. Lee declined, saying he could not fight against ...