Florida, like about a dozen other states, debated in 2009 a proposed amendment to its state constitution that would have blocked, at least ...

In the Spring of 2019, President Trump promised that a Republican alternative to "Obamacare" would soon be unveiled; the majority...

The far-right in Europe has been quite different than the right-wing in American politics. Putting aside the usual caricature of “people in...

Unlike that of the E.U., the U.S. system of public governance is structurally biased toward   political consolidation at the expense of fed...

It is certainly more politic to declare the state of the union to be strong rather than weak. In his State of the Union speech in January ...

TARP, the "bailout" for banks rather than mortgage borrowers, was the first big issue facing the Obama administration before the...

On October 13, 2010, Fox News reported a poll that found that women were turning on Obama.   The reason cited was that they feel there has...

Congress may be like a drunk, unaware that it is being handed one drink after another by vested interests oriented to legislation with spec...

It is odd that even after a bill becomes a law, it can be defunded, thereby effectively killing it even though it has not been voted down. ...

Senator Ron Wyden has written to government officials of Oregon to encourage them to “come up with innovative solutions that the Federal go...

While campaigning for the U.S. presidency in 2008, U.S. President Obama decried the greedy Republican lawmakers acting at the behest of the...

In 2008, drug companies raised the wholesale prices of brand-name prescription drugs by about 9 percent, according to industry analysts. Th...

Even as democracy has many virtues, the political system is not without its own weaknesses. In times of economic crisis, such as Germany in...

By the end of 2012, the chief executives of twenty-six of the American states had decided not to set up medical-insurance exchanges as pa...

“As chief justice, Roberts has been extremely careful with the institutional reputation of the court.” So says one of the lawyers who filed...

“State finances are teetering with $4 trillion in unfunded liabilities to cover pensions and health care for state workers, along with reve...

The aspect of the court’s decision on “Obamacare” that forbids Congress (and the President) from threatening states by withholding...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled on June 28, 2012 that the mandate in the Affordable Healthcare Act (“Obamacare”) is not constitutional un...

In the E.U., the principle of subsidiarity functions in theory like the Tenth Amendment does in the U.S.—again in theory. In both cases, p...

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told a radio audience on April 3, 2012 “that China’s state-controlled banks are a ‘monopoly’ that must be broken...