Who’s Your (Regulatory) Daddy?

Who’s Your (Regulatory) Daddy?

What happens when the engine of policy isn’t Congress but a state with an economy larger than most countries? In the absence of sweeping federal reform, states like California have become de facto food czars, and a bad model for affordable housing and urban planning. Flashpoints in the growing tug-of-war between local experimentation and national inertia, the real action in shaping daily American life isn’t always happening in Washington.