Yale Law School dean and constitutional law scholar Heather Gerken explores how federalism can become an extraordinarily powerful bi-partisan tool and a source for compromise when searching for a workable approach to some of today’s most contentious policy issues, including policing, health care, and immigration, among others.
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How the Right and Left Can Unite Around Federalism
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