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- 1From:Foreign Affairs (Vol. 99, Issue 4)When the novel coronavirus arrived in the United States, it hit an economy, a society, and a constitutional democracy that were fundamentally unprepared. As the extent of the challenge became clear, the country simply...
- 2From:Pakistan & Gulf Economist (Vol. 41, Issue 46-47)Byline: S. KAMAL HAYDER KAZMI The greatest strength of the federal principle is that it alone of all known principles of organization prepares and tests people for top-management responsibility at an early stage. In...
- 3From:The EconomistAmerican policy is splintering state by state, with profound consequences T O UNDERSTAND THE future of America, don't head to Washington, DC. Instead, talk to the governors of its most conservative state, Mississippi,...
- 4From:Foreign Affairs (Vol. 101, Issue 5)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 presidential election...
- 5From:The EconomistThe pivotal state for making America's Senate more proportional is Alaska WITH A RAZOR-THIN majority, Democrats in America's Senate are struggling to pass a signature spending bill. Their woes stem in part from failing...
- 6From:American History (Vol. 56, Issue 3)
"Just to Say, 'I Am Free": Amid the American Revolution, an enslaved woman sued for freedom-and won.
In 1780, with the American Revolution in full cry, one enslaved woman seized an opportunity to assert her freedom. Hearing the constitution of the new state of Massachusetts, which included the line "All men are born... - 7From:The EconomistThe return of big government sparks questions for the European project C RANK UP THE power flowing into a building and the lights shine that much brighter. Without an upgrade in its wiring, though, fuses will soon blow...
- 8From:USA Today (Vol. 150, Issue 2920)HERE are two questions pertinent to our times: How would you reduce the greatest free republic in history to despotism in a short period of time? How would you stop that from happening? The answer to the first question...
- 9From:State Legislatures (Vol. 44, Issue 7)On June 21, the U.S. Supreme Court acknowledged that the "laboratories of democracy" are working. In South Dakota v. Wayfair, the court, in overturning its 1992 Quill decision, ruled that states can require out-of-state...
- 10From:State Legislatures (Vol. 44, Issue 7)Everyone's got their limits. The federal government and the states have been testing each other's ever since the ink dried on the Constitution. The state-federal relationship has been both challenged and strengthened...
- 11From:Economic & Political WeeklyByline: Anushka Mittal The author would like to acknowledge and thank the anonymous reviewer for their inputs as they helped to enrich the discussion and put them in the right perspective. Anushka Mittal...
- 12From:Maclean's (Vol. 134, Issue 10)Hyperbole and a Half is a slyly brilliant web comic in which author Allie Brosh uses manic, deliberately crude drawings to dismantle ordinary human experiences into shards of genius and madness. In one, she laid out...
- 13From:National Review (Vol. 73, Issue 20)The talk of a "national divorce" is increasing. It's as if people suddenly agreed we should have a constitutional convention, but it had to be held in Reno. I'm sorry, that's an archaic reference. No one goes to Reno...
- 14From:The Brooklyn Rail"Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle. Aristocracy ruins itself by limiting too narrowly the circle within which power is confined; oligarchy ruins itself by the incautious for...
- 15From:National Review (Vol. 70, Issue 10)Over the past few months, states and cities have been competing for the privilege of hosting Amazon's second headquarters. To this end, Maryland has pledged a "blank check" in transportation spending tailored to the...
- 16From:Economic & Political WeeklyByline: Rekha Saxena Rekha Saxena (rekhasaxenadu@gmail.com) teaches at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi; Honorary Senior Advisor, Forum of Federations, Ottawa; and Honorary Vice-Chairperson,...
- 17From:Addis FortuneThere are a few without an opinion on Ethiopia's federal structure, which is arranged along lingo-cultural faultlines. Despite popular perception, though, not all the regional states have structured strictly along these...
- 18From:State LegislaturesAs part of NCSL Base Camp 2020, NCSL hosted a discussion on the state and federal role in shaping energy markets and the resource mix with experts Ari Peskoe, director of Harvard Law School's Electricity Law Initiative,...
- 19From:Economic & Political WeeklyByline: V Bhaskar The author is grateful for the insightful comments on earlier versions of this paper received from the participants of the seminar on "Issues in India's Macroeconomic Policy and Regulation" held at...
- 20From:Commentary (Vol. 151, Issue 5)A QUARTER-CENTURY ago, Bill Clinton was seeking reelection after spending the first two years of his presidency raising taxes, instituting gun controls, and attempting to create a national health-care system. He had...