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 ...

It has already become a bit of a cliché to say that the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic is a demonstration of our country’s system of federalism. That’s a positive for progressive observers ...

Not all unintended consequences are bad. One consequence of the election of President Donald Trump is that blue states and progressives find themselves keenly interested in the age-old debate about ...

Due to a federalist system that disperses government powers widely, the U.S. response to the largest public health crisis in its history is a hodgepodge of national, state and local actions often in ...

In March, I gave a talk on "How Federalism Promotes Unity Through Diversity" at a panel that was part of the Federalist Society National Student Symposium. The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy ...

This article reviews two of the most visible forms of the populist right resurgence in American politics, the county rule and militia movements. Both of these efforts have phrased their claims in the ...

This article offers an analysis of the legacy of the Obama Administration's education agenda, focusing on implications for American federalism. Faced with partisan gridlock in Congress—which was not ...

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 ...