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Massachusetts, North Dakota, Delaware, and Connecticut have recently joined the nationwide public-safety broadband network, a public-safety system intended to provide a reliable interoperable network…
Massachusetts, North Dakota, Delaware, and Connecticut have recently joined the nationwide public-safety broadband network, a public-safety system intended to provide a reliable interoperable network…
The office of New York's attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, recently filed its 100th legal or administrative action against the Trump administration and congressional Republicans.…
Three cities -- New York, San Francisco, and Philadelphia -- have sued the Department of Defense in an attempt to force the Department to…
A new study suggests that the results of the recent Catalan independence vote divided largely along whether voters' first language is Catalan or Spanish.…
Peter Harkness salutes two leaders in the field of intergovernmental relations: Paul Posner and Parris Glendening. He notes that Posner, who passed away this…
Calvin H. Johnson looks back at the effect that the 1783 debate about New York's impost, or tax on items arriving in its harbor,…
Arizona's attorney general, Mark Brnovich, writes that in the recently argued case of Christie v. NCAA, the Supreme Court will decide whether Congress can…
According to a new report, states in the South and West are likely to gain seats in Congress after the next U.S. Census. States…
The U.S. Department of Education continues to issue responses to state's plans for implementing the Every Student Succeeds Act. The latest states to hear…
Luis Moreno writes that Catalonia’s December 21 election produced an indecisive result. Although separatist parties won 70 seats in Catalonia’s 135-member parliament, the non-secessionist…
Paolo Dardanelli writes that some of the most pro-union political parties in Europe favor national independence. In examining this paradox, he argues that European…
The European Union launched an unprecedented disciplinary action against Poland this week in response to the government's moves to assert more control over the…
Jonathan F. Mitchell asserts that judicial review in the United States threatens federalism because it allows the Supreme Court, by simple majority vote, to…
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