Eating Policy

The Crisis We've Been Waiting For

It's time for government to move fast and build things

Sep 3 • Aaron Lemon-Strauss

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August 2026

Weekend short read: Fire is a metaphor, until its not

Prescribed burns and unprescribed ones, and what it means to me to be where I am

Aug 22 • Jennifer Pahlka

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Checking in on Outcomes Reviews

New findings in California’s experiment in shifting incentives for legislators, and I find out about program I really should have known about.

Aug 20 • Jennifer Pahlka

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Thinking the unthinkable

Can you imagine a state without a food stamps program? Should you?

Aug 7 • Jennifer Pahlka

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July 2026

Rebuilding the machinery of government can't be a partisan project

Voters can't reward what they never see delivered. That's everyone's problem.

Published on The Renovator • Jul 24

North Carolina’s bold move on civil service

The state’s new civil service statute, enacted by a Republican legislature and signed into law by a Democratic governor, is a big deal

Jul 20 • Jennifer Pahlka

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Government Reform Needs a Field

I spent twenty years helping build a field without realizing that's what I was doing. This one, we're building on purpose.

Published on The Art of Association • Jul 9

June 2026

Philanthropy’s Willie Sutton Problem

Third wave philanthropy will need to work with government, but it will also have to work ON government

Jun 19 • Jennifer Pahlka

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May 2026

The Digital Service Was Never the Point

Colorado becomes first state to commit to the product model at scale

May 30 • Jennifer Pahlka and Kelly Taylor

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April 2026

A (shorter) Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform

We keep propping up a system that’s run out of time to adapt

Apr 27 • Jennifer Pahlka

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A Three Horizons Framework for Government Reform

We keep propping up a system that’s run out of time to adapt

Apr 24 • Jennifer Pahlka

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Mitigating Metrics Malaise: Claude on Goodhart's Law

Claude fought the law, and the bot won

Apr 22 • Jennifer Pahlka

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