A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

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Tina Kotek that some want to split the state. Secession Schemes Within the States: Last November, voters in seven Illinois counties approved ballot measures calling for the creation of a new state.

How did the US go from a nation that revered liberty to one with despotic governance? While political forces already were trying to push the US in a direction of centralization, the Civil War ...

Joe Heller cartoon on high egg prices.

If secession wins a majority vote, this would be a crucial first step in paving the way for either de jure or de facto annexation. If Greenland does vote to secede from Denmark, it won’t be the first ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of ...

Jack Rakove, the William Robertson Coe professor of history and American studies and professor emeritus of political science and law at Stanford University, sits down with James M. Lindsay to ...

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“I mean, it’s not really new anymore and it sure as hell isn’t happy, but you too, I guess.” ...