The Albanese government has repeated its threat to go it alone on hospital funding after the states rejected a $23 billion public hospital boost.

Call it “Make America Dead Again”: If it’s a peaceful anti-ICE protest, send in the Marines. If it’s a hurricane, no disaster aid for you! As on many other policy questions, MAGA doctrine regarding ...

Joe Biden will come to the presidency with close to a clean slate on the issue of federal-state-local relations. How will he tackle the big issues he can't escape? The best insight into the former ...

Do economic rivalries between Texas and California or New York and Florida feel like yet another sign that America has become ...

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Separation of powers and federalism have many friends of convenience. Those opposed to the current policies of the party in charge of the federal government (or a particular branch of it) will often ...

The Alberta Legislature has finally wrapped up its fall sitting. And what an extraordinary sitting it has been—in all the worst ways.

President Trump comes up with some of the best nicknames, and his “my little communist” jab at New York City’s next mayor is comedy gold. Zohran Mamdani, the self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist, just ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Viksit Bharat Shiksha Adhishthan Bill, 2025, promises a sweeping overhaul of India’s higher education regulation by ...