Congressional Democrats are stepping up oversight efforts of the "opportunity zones" created by the 2017 tax law. The zones have been criticized for offering…
In a case appealed by Maui County, Hawaii, this week the Supreme Court heard arguments about whether the federal Clean Water Act permitting requirement,…
Bryan Frye of the Ipse Dixit podcast recently interviewed Ilya Somin about the significance that sanctuary-jurisdiction litigation holds for constitutional federalism. Read more here.
Robert A. Mikos examines how federal responses to state marijuana reforms have evolved over time. Read more here.
A separatist group in the western Canadian province of Alberta has applied to become a federal political party. The group calls for the western…
Sharmila Murthy writes that state and local government climate-change efforts have taken on greater importance because of Trump administration policies. Murthy examines how such…
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators is supporting a bill that would push local governments to use ".gov" at the end of their domain…
The president of Nepal has removed all seven governors from office. Bimalendra Nidhi, vice-president of the Nepali Congress, criticized the removals, declaring that the "government’s…
A number of states are pushing back against the EPA's deregulatory mandates that the states view as efforts to undercut state-level environmental protections. The…
India has formally divided Jammu and Kashmir into two federally administered territories, meaning that the region will now have less autonomy than Indian states.…
Hundreds of cities are participating in a program funded by the U.S. Department of Energy that helps streamline permitting and zoning processes for using…
Elliott Raia reviews the immigration policies of Australia and Canada and contends that the United States should emulate certain aspects of those nations' policies…
Segun Gbadegesin writes that state-level resistance to the national minimum wage is hypocritical and flows from the "fake nature of the federalism which the military…
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