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Administrative-State
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The Enshittification of Government
A word coined for social media platforms turns out to describe something much older than social media: what happens to any organization once the people who run it stop needing to please the people it was built for. Government is not exempt. …
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The City's Real Shareholders
A resident stood up at his city council meeting and used a word usually reserved for tech platforms to describe what had happened to his local government: enshittification. The metaphor is more exact than he probably realized, and it …
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DOGE Should Have Been Permanent
DOGE had the right mission, and for once someone with power actually went looking for the waste. The mistake was leaving it a temporary executive project instead of doing the obvious thing and making it a permanent institution by act of …
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Pay First, Verify Never
The slow election count, the leaking benefit programs, and the unreadable road signs are the same story: a managerial state that optimizes for throughput and lets integrity rot.