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Why is Trump Relocating the Food and Nutrition Service?
The data shows it is not to move services closer to those receiving benefits
May 15
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Good News! FAFSA is Actually Working
It is possible to fix burdensome administrative systems
May 13
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Eddy Conroy
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Escaping the Democracy Death Spiral
Waiting for the grownups to save us is a bad plan.
May 6
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Don Kettl
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Some basic math about cutting government
Nov 16, 2024
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Fake Jobs and Fake Facts
Nov 25, 2024
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The authoritarian checklist
Aug 28, 2025
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What Happens Next?
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The Biggest Loser in Wisconsin
Apr 2, 2025
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What does the end of the Voting Rights Act mean?
May 1
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The Trump plan to add work requirements to public housing
Here is something you can do about it
Apr 29
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How Prior Authorizations Limit Access to Health Care
Putting Patients and Physicians in an Unnavigable Maze
Apr 22
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Miranda Yaver
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Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto
The problems with our tech philosopher kings
Apr 20
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What the death of Direct File tells us about state capacity
We CAN have nice things - if we want them
Apr 13
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Don Moynihan
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What The Pitt Gets Right about Health Policy
Foreshadowing the deadly consequences of Trump's Medicaid policies
Apr 9
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Pamela Herd
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Don Moynihan
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Remembering the Origins of Birthright Citizenship
Administrative Burdens Were Long Used to Restrict Internal Migration
Apr 2
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Anna O. Law
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The (Poly)Market Nobody Knows How to Govern
Prediction markets or gambling websites? Inside the regulatory wild west
Mar 31
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Ashley Splawinski
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Mike Johnson's Institutional Betrayal
The DHS shutdown is morphing into a constitutional crisis
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