In his January 1959 State of the Union, in the waning years of his presidency, President Dwight Eisenhower called for a Commission on National Goals. In a speech dominated by Cold War concerns and ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Congressional leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) discusses joint federal-state priorities at the 2016 National Governors Association Summer Meeting In a ...

Usually, government is compared to a neatly tiered three-layer cake—composed of national, state and local levels. In fact, as the late University of Chicago Professor Morton Grodzins put it in a 1960 ...