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Spending
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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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The Two Hundred Billion Dollar Leak
The government’s own books show well over a hundred and fifty billion dollars a year paid out in error. If you actually believe in a safety net, that should enrage you more than anyone.