There is an old riddle that asks, what do constitutional school funding lawsuits and birds have in common? The answer: every state has its own. Yet while almost every state has experienced hotly-contested school funding litigation, the results of these suits have been nearly impossible to...

This short white paper explains how progressive states can undo the disruptive effect of the Supreme Court's decision invalidating public union fair share fees in Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31. Put succinctly, lawmakers can amend state law to permit government employers to reimburse unions for...

The Supreme Court’s decision in McDonald v. Chicago has generated a great deal of debate over the Fourteenth Amendment Privileges or Immunities Clause and the manner in which constitutional rights should be incorporated to apply against the states. One by-product of that debate has been a rise...

The axe has finally fallen. In Janus v. AFSCME, Council 31, the Supreme Court struck down the major source of financial security enjoyed by public sector unions representing nearly half of the nation’s fifteen million union members. Countless press stories, law review articles, and amicus...

Among all of the contentious debates in education policy, perhaps none is as divisive as the one over private school vouchers. Even as more than 400,000 American students currently use some form of publicly-funded voucher to attend a private school—with the number growing each year—one...

This paper presents a collaborative exercise to explore divergent futures for the field of global risk, and especially the global risk community intersecting with the Centre for the Study of Existential Risk at the University of Cambridge. While this community often advocates for the value of...

The Rehnquist Court’s so-called “Federalism Revolution” has received no shortage of scholarly attention. Under the conventional narrative, the Court pushed back against the encroaching tide of federal power in three spheres: it limited the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause authority,...