Cole Grisham, a Ph.D. candidate at Portland State University, completed a research study on "Collaborative Governance between Alaska Native Institutions: Motivations, Mechanisms, and Outcomes"…
Chris Edwards writes on the passing of federal judge and U.S. senator James Buckley that Buckley's Saving Congress from Itself is "a great introduction…
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recommended that the Drug Enforcement Agency reclassify marijuana as a lower-risk controlled substance. The move…
Alan Greenblatt reports on how the increasing use by states of preemption laws is affecting localities. Read more here.
Carleen Zubrzycki considers some of the new state civil actions that have arisen in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's Dobbs decision. She warns that "culture war"…
Joel S. Johnson explores the U.S. Supreme Court's void-for-vagueness doctrine and notes that "vagueness analysis significantly depends on whether the law at issue is a…
Zina Hutton examines how the possibility of how a federal government shutdown in November could affect state and local budgets. Read more here.
The Kaiser Family Foundation has prepared a report on the fundamentals of how Medicaid is financed, including a discussion of how the federal government…
H-FedHist has hosted a roundtable, including reviews, of Christian G. Fritz's recent book, Monitoring American Federalism: The History of State Legislative Resistance. Read more here.
Llana Newman examines the challenges that localities face in using federal funds provided by the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program. Read more…
In a blog post, Ray Nothstine contends that federal government shutdowns should serve as "wake-up calls" for the states. Read more here.
C-Span's "Books that Shaped America" video series has released an episode exploring The Federalist. You can view the video here.
Greg Day contends that states engage in anticompetitive conduct, yet are "nevertheless immune from antitrust review as a matter of federalism." Read more here.
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