Archive - Eating Policy

What DOGE didn't do

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

Jun 4 •

Jennifer Pahlka

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

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

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

The Water is a Mirror

A lot of what you might call government waste is our fault.

Apr 1 •

Jennifer Pahlka

March 2025

Planning isn’t progress

Rethinking how government builds in a world that can’t wait

Mar 31 •

Punching left or punching back?

Steve Teles, Derek Thompson, and Ezra Klein offer the self-critique we need.

Mar 20 •

Jennifer Pahlka

February 2025

Why Nothing Works

Even amongst the chaos of the moment, the left must grapple with the challenge Marc Dunkelman describes in his important new book. In fact, because of…

Feb 28 •

Jennifer Pahlka

Today is Fork in the Road Day. The DOGE team should really meet Jed.

Feb 6 •

Jennifer Pahlka

January 2025

Vast carelessness

The bungled grants freeze shows how little this administration bothers to think things through

Jan 29 •

Thoughts for Inauguration Day

Why defending process won't save us — and what might

Jan 20 •

Jennifer Pahlka

December 2024

The view from space

"If only politics really were a pantomime."

Dec 27, 2024 •

Jennifer Pahlka

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