Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federalism is a system of government where power is shared between a central authority and smaller regional governments. Many ...

The “American System” that gives its name to this essay series is perhaps most directly associated with mercantilism, industrial policy, and federal investments in infrastructure. An element that is ...

This series begins by asking what new ideas we can discover by looking at Henry Clay’s old idea of the American System, arguing for more robust state action to rebuild our industrial base, restore ...

SIR: The landmark judgment of the Supreme Court on local government autonomy creates a side-line solution to a constitutional crisis on the structure of Nigeria’s federalism. Whereas the judgment ...

In overturning Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court has given Americans yet another jarring reminder that these United States are deeply divided. Though Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health was not decided on ...

My recent book Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus argues for what political scientist Lisa Miller, in her review in these pages, dubs “aspirational federalism.” I like and will embrace this label.

Nelson Rockefeller describes the three Godkin lectures on “The Future of Federalism” that he delivered at Harvard University last February as “the fitting together, into a theme, of the pieces of ...

Amid the continuing revelations about what led to the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, one aspect of the crisis has received comparatively little attention: how the effort to negate the ...