Can We Still Govern?

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What I wrote in The Atlantic about the Clicktatorship
When content matters more than the truth
 • Don Moynihan
Autocracy in America
A conversation with Anne Applebaum, and a round-up of some things I'm reading
 • Don Moynihan
The Means-Testing Industrial Complex
The vendors getting rich from putting administrative burdens on the poor
 • Luke Farrell
American biomedical science in 2026
Where we are, how we got here, and what to do next
 • Mark Histed
Past the breaking point
The violent occupation of an American city is more than a warning
 • Don Moynihan
What Does the Public Actually Think About the Access-Fraud Tradeoff?
Politicians are out of step with public views
 • Sebastian Jilke and Elizabeth Bell
Dispatch from the occupation
What life is like in Minneapolis now
A Year On: The DOGE Disaster
A Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of your government
 • Don Moynihan
How Much Power Does the President Actually Have Over the Civil Service?
More than you think, which is why other branches need to step up
 • Nicholas Bednar
Can We Still Govern?
Improving the quality of government, public policy, reducing administrative burdens
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Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum
Open Letters, from Anne Applebaum
Anne Applebaum
The Present Age
The Present Age
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