Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I explore the intersection of economics and culture. Washington's fiscal situation has been in disarray for decades. President ...

WANTED: A conservative president who really is one. President Bush is simply not filling the bill. His Department of Education has peeved Nebraska school officials, who have the curious notion that ...

There has always been this assumption made by some Nigerian intellectuals and politicians concerning the concept and practice of federalism. That assumption is that the principles of federalism are ...

America is built upon the principle of federalism, a form of government in which power is balanced and responsibilities are shared between the states and the federal government. The Trump ...

Conservatives are attached to the principles of federalism and free speech online even when these principles make it harder to achieve their policy aims, suggest two recent studies. Meanwhile, ...

At the New York Times, veteran legal journalist Linda Greenhouse notes some of the cheerleading (from progressives even more than from conservatives) for the probability that the Supreme Court will ...

My friend, Ramesh Ponnuru, over at National Review and I had a little disagreement over the issue of Federalism. It might seem a little like “Inside Baseball” but, actually, it deals with something ...

Last year, giant meat-packing companies brought a case to the Supreme Court challenging California’s right to prohibit the in-state sale of meat produced through cruel and unsafe practices. They ...

As reflected in B.R. Ambedkar’s speech in the Constituent Assembly, ‘sovereignty of states’ jurisdiction’ is one of the established principles of the Constitution The Constitution has immense federal ...

Prof. Stephen L. Carter's Nov. 27 editorial-page commentary "Suing Your Way to the White House" paints a rather simplistic view of Republican principles of federalism. Federalism is not merely the ...

Federalism is as African as Baobab trees and the Big Five. Even though some commentators critique the concept of federalism – by trying to tie it to those organisations or persons arguing for it – it ...

There has always been this assumption made by some Nigerian intellectuals and politicians concerning the concept and practice of federalism. That assumption is that the principles of federalism are ...