Sean B. Hecht examines the federal Public Health Act and contends that public health can benefit from the division of public-health responsibilities between the…
Lorenzo Marsili and Ulrike Guérot write that the end of the pandemic offers an opportunity for Europe "to build a democracy of equals." Read…
In an op-ed, Frank Pignanelli and LaVarr Webb look at how the Trump administration has responded to the coronavirus outbreak, concluding that the administration…
Kim Wehle provides an overview of the history of federalism in the United States, writing that President Trump's "tortured dance with state governors" regarding…
Lizabeth Cohen writes that although the New Deal "recast the structure of American federalism" because states and localities lacked the capacity to deal with the Great…
Parth Maniktala contends that a fund recently established by India's government will impair the states' ability to combat the coronavirus and "dilute federalism" because the…
In a sharply divided ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court has declared that, under the "government edicts" doctrine, Georgia cannot copyright its annotated legal code. Read…
The Federal Reserve has expanded a lending program to include more local governments. Read more here.
David Frum writes that U.S. Senate leader Mitch McConnell's opposition to financial assistance to states lies in fiscal federalism. Read more here.
Noting that three groups of governors have created regional pacts to work together to combat the coronavirus outbreak, Richard Kreitner suggests that these leaders…
A group of scholars are calling for the creation of a non-governmental body that "will rethink the architecture of Canadian fiscal federalism" in the wake of…
Dan Balz contends that the visible roles played by the states during the coronavirus pandemic is "very much as the Founders intended when they established…
Linda Greenhouse reports on the upcoming oral argument in the so-called faithless elector case before the U.S. Supreme Court. Greenhouse contends that the Court…
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