Eating Policy

Outcomes Review: Realigning Legislative Incentives

How might a state legislature shift from outputs to outcomes?

Nov 20 • 

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Robert Moses's unfinished business should be Mamdani's priority

The mayor-elect has 25,000 job applicants in 24 hours and a civil service system designed to keep him from hiring any of them

Nov 12 • 

Jennifer Pahlka

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From the Archives: Stop making people do the wrong jobs

Public servants are largely doing a great job — at the wrong jobs. A bolder agenda for workforce planning.

Nov 10 • 

Jennifer Pahlka

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October 2025

Announcing the Recoding America Fund

A bipartisan reckoning with the administrative state

Oct 22 • 

Jennifer Pahlka

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September 2025

GAO gets schooled by the Department of Education

The FAFSA team snaps back, then punches back

Sep 12 • 

Jennifer Pahlka

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August 2025

Better Politicians

Weeding is Fundamental

Aug 20 • 

Jennifer Pahlka

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Channel your inner Marie Kondo

The life-changing art of identifying and eliminating policy clutter

Aug 11 • 

Jennifer Pahlka

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Grasping at (Paper) Straws

You can have government efficiency or wage the culture war, but not both at once

Aug 1 • 

Gabe Menchaca

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June 2025

What DOGE didn't do

Sustainable change comes from changing rules and procedures, not just ignoring them

Jun 4 • 

Jennifer Pahlka

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April 2025

Why the Paperwork Reduction Act needs to go, Part 2

We're the only country that has tried to reduce burden this way, and it hasn't worked. Especially with capacity being gutted, we should learn from what…

Apr 18 • 

Jennifer Pahlka

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Why the Paperwork Reduction Act needs to go, Part 1

If we have fewer federal workers, we'd better choose what's most important for them to do. A law that keeps us locked into nineties era paperwork should…

Apr 17 • 

Jennifer Pahlka

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Opposite is not a winning strategy

Dems need alternatives whose strength comes from a positive vision of what to do, not defined by what not to do.

Apr 16 • 

Jennifer Pahlka

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