Trump Administration Escalates Conflict with California
The Trump administration is threatening to withhold highway funds on grounds that California has not done enough to improve its air quality (password required).…
The Federalism Library is an online multimedia collection of articles, books, and podcasts exploring contemporary and classic questions related to federalism. It includes material created by the Center for the Study of Federalism, as well as carefully curated information from prominent writers on federalism.
The Trump administration is threatening to withhold highway funds on grounds that California has not done enough to improve its air quality (password required).…
Ira Stoll suggests that Democrats have rediscovered the virtues of federalism now that a Republican is president. Read more here.
The Communist Party of India has condemned the national government's revocation of Jammu and Kashmir's special status as an attack on democracy and federalism. Read…
Chris Selley urges the national government to intervene in legal challenges to Quebec's passage of a law restricting certain civil servants from wearing religious symbols…
In an op-ed, Yonatan T. Fessha contends that a proposed federal educational plan that would require the teaching of the national language, as opposed to regional…
Governing reports that the dramatic rise in the value of data during the last decade has increased the importance of obtaining an accurate count for…
Satish Misra contends that state resistance to the Motor Vehicle Law Act of 2019 is "a classic display of cooperative federalism in operation." Read more here.
In the wake of disinformation about the European Union arising from the Brexit campaign, Garret Martin suggests that the EU's complexity has contributed to…
Donald J. Savoie has written Democracy in Canada: The Disintegration of Our Institutions (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019). Savoie contends that Canada's origins explain why democracy…
The Pew Charitable Trusts recently hosted a webcast focused on the importance of federal-state coordination during a recession. View the webcast here. Read more here.
James Fallows reflects on the fragmentation of the Roman Empire and suggests that what happened during that process can provide insight into the movement…
The U.S. Justice Department is supporting a lawsuit that seeks to invalidate the state's retirement plan (password required). Read more here.
The Trump administration is revoking California's authority to set vehicle emissions (password required). Read more here.
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