Some states with legal marijuana have enacted laws prohibiting employers from discrimination in hiring against people who have used cannabis legally. Employers who have federal contracts…
Thousands of California students have lost their federal financial aid because of a regulatory fight between the Department of Education and the National Education Association (password…
William J. Magnuson explores the question of how federalism affects the quality of law. He contends that, in developing regulations, many states "race to…
Samuel Hammond writes that the recently held "National Conservatism" conference offered, among other topics, an opportunity to consider how federalism could be affected by the nationalist…
A bipartisan bill to reconstitute the U.S. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations has emerged from a special task force. The commission would act as a…
Mark Sandford reviews the downward transfer of power occurring in England in the mid-2010s. Read more here.
Patrick Taillon, a law professor Université Laval, has proposed that Quebec be an equal partner with Ottawa in selecting the three Supreme Court justices that the…
Ilya Somin follows up his recent Washington Post article on federalism and liberals by exploring "fair weather federalism" and whether liberalism is inherently centralizing. Read more here.
Texas has recently enacted a law sharply limiting cities' ability to regulate construction of residential and commercial buildings. Under the new law, city construction codes…
In an interview, the speaker of the parliament of the state of Rakhine discusses the continuing importance of the nation's push for democracy and…
Paulo Vila Maior reviews the historiography of European integration to evaluate whether supranational interests or national interests prevailed during sovereign debt crises. Read more here.
The Trump administration has approved steps by states to cap Medicaid enrollment, something that the Republican Party has not been able to do at…
Marisa Beck and Bryson Robertson write that the nation's federal structure "both generates and exacerbates the institutional fragmentation of the energy information system." Read more here.
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