Blue state federalism is at a crossroads. The reason? Progressives advocating for more state and local policymaking power may have been too successful for their own good. In the eyes of many, the 2006 congressional …
by Elaine C. Kamarck
By now most Americans are familiar with the federal government’s hapless response to Hurricane Katrina. A sample of what went wrong in the aftermath of one of the worst natural disasters to …
by Zaid A. Zaid
Noah Feldman’s book What We Owe Iraq1 is a unique contribution to the ongoing discourse—mainly amongst academics, former military personnel, and diplomats who served in the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)—regarding the past, …
by Melissa Patterson
Usually, only legal scholars routinely consider federal court jurisdiction-stripping a hot topic. Although Congress periodically considers bills stripping federal courts of jurisdiction in one way or another, such attempts almost always fail, and …
by Katherine Minarik
After six years of predictions and nervous waiting for Court-watchers of all ideological stripes, President George W. Bush appointed two new Justices to the Supreme Court less than two years into his second …
by Mary Anne Franks
The name Guantanamo Bay is now inextricably linked with images of shackled men in orange jumpsuits and black hoods, with the designation of “enemy combatants,” and with the uncertain, possibly severe violence …
by Dawn Johnsen
During the closing years of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first, ideological conservatives made significant progress in their efforts to transform constitutional meaning and the dominant sources and methods of …
BY RONALD A. KLAIN
In the spring of 2006, with the midterm elections just a few months away, the conventional wisdom was that extensive partisan gerrymandering made a change in control in the U.S. House of …
by Beatrix Hoffman*
Jacob Hacker has an important proposal and people should be listening. His ideas about domestic reform stand out from the current crop for several reasons. He proposes a simple but powerful …
BY MICHAEL S. BARR
How many of us walk by the signs for “Checks Cashed Here,” “Money Orders for Sale,” and “Payday Loans: Get Cash Quick” without thinking about the implications of those signs for the daily …
