Ep. 39 Federalism in Action: Elections, Governors, and Energy

This week on Understandable Insights, Sue and Eric look at one of the least appreciated features of the American system: how much power lives outside Washington. They examine three domains where distributed power defines how America actually works: elections administered by 10,000 independent jurisdictions, governors acting as independent executives rather than federal subordinates, and an energy grid regulated at the state level with national security consequences. The thesis is simple: the ...