Resistance is not futile, although it might seem that way at the moment. No major protests are set to descend on the National Mall. Legal challenges to Donald Trump’s policies are likely doomed, given ...

For Yale law professor Heather K. Gerken, the question of how Americans can coexist in relative peace and prosperity, despite their many differences, has a temping answer: “The tempting answer to this ...

The war against terrorism, like other wars before it, will enhance respect for the national government and increase its growth. That prediction, and the corollary prediction of federalism’s demise, ...

To this day, Republicans haven’t forgiven Chief Justice John Roberts for casting the deciding vote that upheld the core of the Affordable Care Act. But along with his tie-breaking vote in the 2012 ...

Progressives have long been skeptical of federalism, with the role that “states’ rights” played in the resistance to the civil rights act and desegregation typically featuring prominently in their ...

President Rodrigo Duterte holds up a vial of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after the arrival of the first shipment of the vaccine in the Philippines, March 5, 2021. Credit: Facebook/Rody Duterte ...

More than a year into Chinese President Xi Jinping’s tenure, Beijing’s economic mantra has remained remarkably consistent and clear: China’s growth model is broken and needs to change. The Chinese ...

Even though progressives such as Brandeis have celebrated our federalism, it’s important to remember that Brandeis lived and worked at a time when the federal government was icebound in conservative ...

Lately some state legislatures have been considering so-called "sovereignty resolutions." Rather than pass strictly symbolic measures, however, I recommended--in an op-ed last month in The Wall Street ...

Will shifting power from Manila to the regions deliver truly inclusive growth? Did Dr Jose Rizal, the national hero of the Philippines, really dream of a federal government set-up in the "pearl of the ...

Federalism infuses every aspect of the Australian system of government. Flickr/OzinOH, CC BY The reform of Australia’s federation is under review. So far in our special series, leading Australian ...