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American Federalism

August 1, 2018

Does Devolution Offer a Path for a Third-Party Candidate?

David Brooks contends that frustration with the national government has created an opportunity for a third-party presidential candidate who could campaign on redistributing power…

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American Federalism

July 31, 2018

New EPA Head to Continue Rollbacks

EPA acting head Andrew Wheeler has halted two of his predecessor's efforts to roll back environmental regulations because he considers the rollbacks legally vulnerable.…

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July 31, 2018

Law Grants More Local Control to Philippine Region

President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines has signed a law intended to bring more autonomy to Muslims in the south of the country. It…

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July 31, 2018

HUD Resists Calls for Help with Affordable Housing Crisis

The federal Housing and Urban Development Department has largely stayed on the sidelines as an affordable housing crisis intensifies across the nation. The department's…

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July 31, 2018

Canadian Premier Shrinks Toronto City Council

Ontario's premier, Doug Ford, announced that he plans to cut the size of Toronto's city council from 47 seats to 25 positions. Canadian cities…

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American Federalism

July 31, 2018

Wolves Attack Wisconsin with Washington’s Help

In this op-ed, Cori Petersen contends that federal policies protecting wolf populations in the Great Lakes region exceed what is necessary for healthy wolf…

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July 30, 2018

State Constitutions and an Increasingly Conservative Supreme Court

The Rockefeller Institute of Government and the Government Law Center at Albany Law School recently hosted a forum to consider the role that could…

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July 30, 2018

California Vehicle Waiver in Jeopardy?

Maxine Joselow looks at how the EPA's change in leadership might affect California's authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions from vehicles. Read more here.

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July 30, 2018

Marijuana Data-Collection Bill Introduced

A bipartisan bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives that takes no position on marijuana legalization but would spur research on state…

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American Federalism

July 30, 2018

A Case for Increased Infrastructure Spending

Aaron Klein contends that more spending on infrastructure by all levels of government and the private sector is necessary to meet the nation's needs…

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American Federalism

July 30, 2018

Census Lawsuit Allowed to Move Forward

A federal judge has ruled that a lawsuit filed by a number of cities and states questioning the addition of a citizenship question to…

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July 27, 2018

Citizenship Rumor Alarms Italian Leaders

A report this week in a South Tyrolean newspaper that Austria plans to offer citizenship to German-speaking -- but not to Italian-speaking -- residents of…

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July 27, 2018

Cooperative Federalism and India’s GST

An op-ed in the Hindustan Times points to the nation's new goods-and-services tax as a positive example of cooperative federalism, but one that needs…

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