The U.S. Government’s Repair Bills Are Coming Due
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/29/trump-outsourcing-austerity-shutdown-united-states-government/
Decades of accumulated technical debt have hollowed out state capacity.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/29/trump-outsourcing-austerity-shutdown-united-states-government/
Decades of accumulated technical debt have hollowed out state capacity.
The Trouble with Abundance
In a book released earlier this year, Ezra Klein and
Derek Thompson argue essentially for “competent capacity”: a US that can
effectively plan, approve, and execute projects. That is a worthy goal, but
“abundance” is probably not the clearest way to convey it, let alone the most
effective means of achieving it.