Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One hundred years ago America undertook its “Noble Experiment,” shifting alcohol policy from state capitols, where it ...

A few years ago President Barack Obama urged members of the European Union to admit Turkey. Now he wants the United Kingdom to stay in the EU. Even when the U.S. isn’t a member of the club, the ...

The Constitution establishes checks and balances among branches of the federal government and between the federal government and the states. The state-federal balance is sometimes misnamed “states’ ...

After the bodies are recovered and debris cleared from New Orleans, the federal government will no doubt accept blame for an agonizingly slow response to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. As a U.S ...

How do you deal with a political party that doesn’t even want to be in office? That’s the question that British politicians are asking themselves in the ramp-up to the 2015 UK election. Less than a ...

Democrats and liberals increasingly seem to believe that it’s the federal government that needs to do almost everything. Sure, we take the point that it was federalism, states’ rights, that allowed ...

Establishing a balance of power between states and the federal government has defined the American Republic since its inception. This conflict has played out in sharp relief with the implementation of ...

In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks and the wave of patriotism that has fol­lowed, there has been renewed concern about the state of civics education, citizen formation, and ...

Re: “ICE officer kills driver in Minneapolis, inciting turmoil” (Jan. 8, A1): As national tensions rise over federal enforcement and local resistance, it’s worth remembering that our country has faced ...

Issues such as health care, climate change, education and abortion all have two things in common. In addition to political controversy, they all feature substantial policy differences among the states ...

The COVID-19 crisis offered excellent lessons in the advantages of federalism, the division of power between the federal government and the states. Most COVID policies directly affecting Americans ...

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