Opponents of "YIMBY" ("Yes in my Backyard") zoning reform often emphasize the need for "local control" of land-use decisions. The state and federal governments, they say, should not override local ...

With talk-radio stars like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity regularly using their pulpits to rail against anything that smacks of government-mandated "localism," the nation's largest radio company is ...

People are at last beginning to pay attention to localism. It’s worthwhile, amid all this attention, to revisit the work of those who have been touting the benefits of localism for a decade or more.

As the formal economy that shaped the last two centuries begins to contract, many Canadians are quietly shifting toward local ...

The most recent wave of feedback on the FCC’s proposed localism rules is heavily negative. Among more than 11,400 comments on the five-year-old docket, the preponderance of newer ones oppose new ...

Controversy over such issues as school curricula and local law enforcement policies has roiled municipalities across the United States in the past year. Votes by San Francisco, California, school ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. FCC Chairman Michael Powell’s plan to establish a localism task force amounts to a “ready, fire, ...

Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. As we approach the Christmas holiday, the wheels of housing policymaking are grinding to a halt. While that means there's a little less news ...

In the months that followed President Trump’s election, many thoughtful Democrats and progressives re-discovered the beauties of federalism. After all, with a brute in the White House, maybe the best ...

Remarking on Jeremy Beer’s article on meritocracy, Patrick Deneen concludes with this grim, but correct, observation: This, in a microcosm, is a central paradox of our political system: our ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The first real snag came around Day 120. For four straight months, the Levitch family had stuck to their 365-day pledge to "go local" — forgoing Starbucks venti iced teas for ...

Matt Warshaw grew up in Manhattan Beach in the ‘60s, just as surfing was cementing its central place in Southern California’s culture, and spent his youth in the water. He and his high school buddies ...