Federalism is a system of government where power is shared between a central authority and smaller regional governments. Many countries adopt federalism to manage ethnic diversity within their borders ...

My recent Washington Post article on growing liberal support for federalism generated considerable interest. In this follow-up, I am going to further explore two possible reasons why liberal interest ...

What do health reform, homeland security, education reform and abortion have in common? Substantively, very little. But structurally, each of these areas has been subject to congressional or Supreme ...

The Washington Post Outlook section has just published my article on "How Liberals Learned to Love Federalism." Here's an excerpt: This is what the battle over federalism looked like in the United ...

For years, conservatives have stood firm in defense of federalism, local control, and limited government. These principles have served as the bedrock of the movement. That’s why it is so important to ...

In the American plan of constitutional government, the national government was never supposed to have all of the power or make all of the decisions. Indeed, most powers of government were located, and ...

With the presidential election just days away, President Donald Trump has continued to demonstrate his determination to advance his policy agenda through a “hostile takeover” of key policy areas. In a ...

Recent events have indicated that some form of division of Syria is increasingly becoming a possibility. Earlier this week, the main Syrian Kurdish faction, the PYD, declared a federal region in the ...

The U.S. COVID response has been called “federalism at its best” — treating the states as “laboratories of change,” as former Justice Louis Brandeis once said, rather than concentrating all ...

Government supports cooperative federalism, promoting industry investment choices and domestic sourcing in electronics ...