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Trump and Musk are building a new spoils system
When ideological targeting becomes cronyism
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Don Moynihan
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Administrative Backsliding Accompanies Democratic Backsliding
Warning signs from other countries about politicization of the administrative decline
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Kohei Suzuki
Real chilling effects
A extraordinary pattern of government censorship and threats to speech
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Don Moynihan
3
Permitting Reform in Pennsylvania
Some good news on the nuts and bolts of making government work better
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Don Moynihan
1
Requiem for 18F
A small government unit did what DOGE is pretending to do
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Don Moynihan
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Skilled technologists are being forced out of government
18F and USDS are gutted by DOGE
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Don Moynihan
1

February 2025

Trump's Assault on Social Security
The plan to cut America's most successful safety net program
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Pamela Herd
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Don Moynihan
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The Era of Purges
The firing of trans officials is part of a broader pattern of exclusion
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Don Moynihan
4
Musk’s Fraudulent Fraud Squad
A tired trope gets a new lease of life
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Pamela Herd
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Don Moynihan
2
No, University Endowments Can’t Replace Federal Science Funding
How Endowments Actually Work
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Elizabeth Popp Berman
3
Who is included in Trump's America?
In multiple ways, Trump is pushing people with disabilities out of public life
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Pamela Herd
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Military Purges and Complacent Judges
Plus: What I wrote in The Atlantic about the assault on public employees
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Don Moynihan
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