Courtly Observations is a recurring series by Erwin Chemerinsky that focuses on what the Supreme Court’s decisions will mean for the law, for lawyers and lower courts, and for people’s lives. […] The ...

Federalism is a system of government where power is shared between a central authority and smaller regional governments. Many countries adopt federalism to manage ethnic diversity within their borders ...

My recent book Democracy in the Time of Coronavirus argues for what political scientist Lisa Miller, in her review in these pages, dubs “aspirational federalism.” I like and will embrace this label.

Nigeria was cobbled together by Sir Fredrick Luggard, a Briton, representing the British Colonial Government, on January 1, 1914. Code named “amalgamation” the north and the south were amalgamated ...