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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I read an article the other day citing a 2023 YouGov poll that showed 41 percent of Americans believe that the Earth is only nine-and-a-half thousand years old, and that man and dinosaurs coexisted. I ...

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 ...

A rare surf brawl breaks out at Steamer Lane when a fired-up local confronts Sandro Santiago, a 6th degree BJJ black belt, ...

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 ...

In the early part of this decade, the “SoLoMo” -- social-local-mobile -- marketing narrative became very popular as we rapidly ascended to a mobile-first society with advertising hyper-focused on ...

In 2002, POWDER stared down an age-old debate topic: localism and gatekeeping, particularly in backcountry ski areas. Two writers in the Dueling Banjos section duked it out. One fought for the right ...