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 ...

What’s the Plan in Venezuela? Don’t Annex Greenland The Left's new emphasis on state authority reflects not appreciation for federalism but partisan maneuvering until Democrats regain control of ...

Richard Nixon in the Oval Office in 1972. He believed in a federal government whose job was to provide financial help to states and localities — and then to get out of the way. (Richard Nixon ...

Lately some state legislatures have been considering so-called "sovereignty resolutions." Rather than pass strictly symbolic measures, however, I recommended--in an op-ed last month in The Wall Street ...

One country — 17 governments. Germany is a federal republic, which has historical reasons. But that system also has disadvantages. Federalism in Germany reflects the country’s decentralised cultural ...

THERE is a fear in some quarters that attempts to strengthen local government constitute a ‘rollback’ of the 18th Amendment provisions expanding provincial autonomy. This was expressed in a statement ...

Bizuneh Yimenu does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...