New Jersey governor Phil Murphy has signed a bill into law that will require all residents to have health insurance or pay a penalty.…
This week the Canadian government announced that it will buy the troubled Trans Mountain pipeline project from Kinder Morgan. Alberta and British Columbia have…
Virginia's Senate has voted to expand Medicare in the state, following the lead of Maine's similar approval last year. Several other states that had…
California, New York, and Maryland have filed a federal lawsuit against the EPA for suspending a federal rule requiring agricultural employers to train workers…
John O. McGinnis writes that the U.S. Constitution reflects classical political theory by using populist and elitist elements. He contends, however, that populism has…
A bipartisan measure to ban rebuilt diesel engines in large trucks has passed the California State Assembly, despite EPA leadership's interest in allowing such…
Christopher M. Parker has built a dataset of Supreme Court federalism cases from 1789 to 2007 in an effort to assess the role of…
Plans to triple the capacity of the Trans Mountain pipeline in British Columbia and Alberta have sparked legal conflicts between the two provinces. The…
More cities, such as Washington DC, Baltimore, and Atlanta, have turned to environmental impact bonds (EIBs) as a way to comply with EPA regulations.…
Vincent Aluu claims that although Nigeria has nominally been a federal state for more than half a century, in reality military rule has "virtually…
Mahua Venkatesh writes that Narendra Modi's government has pushed for improved cooperative federalism between the central government and the states, but many state leaders…
Nyla Ali Khan writes that increased regional autonomy will likely remain in an ambiguous state because of the "murky den of centralized federalism" in…
Robert Jay Dilger with the Congressional Research Service has written a historical perspective on the changing nature of federal grants to state-and-local governments, including…
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