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What’s Happening to the “Deep State”?
Assaults on American state capacity are gaining steam.
Aug 4
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Francis Fukuyama
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What’s Happening to the “Deep State”?
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The Right’s Revenge
How legal tools and strategies created by the left are now being deployed by Trump.
Jul 31
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R. Shep Melnick
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The Right’s Revenge
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The Day Merit Died
The Trump administration wants a civil service based on politics, not skills.
Jul 22
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Don Kettl
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The Day Merit Died
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Merit, Not Trauma, Should Drive The Civil Service
A message to the architects of Schedule Policy/Career.
Jun 3
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Don Kettl
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Merit, Not Trauma, Should Drive The Civil Service
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The Slow Death of Effective Government
With the apparent demise of Humphrey’s Executor, what comes next for the civil service?
May 30
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Paul Verkuil
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The Slow Death of Effective Government
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How to Really Fix Government
DOGE is not the way to go.
May 12
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Francis Fukuyama
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How to Really Fix Government
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Unleash the Sheep State
Civil service reform should empower the flock, not just cull the herd.
Mar 26
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michael bennon
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Unleash the Sheep State
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Why the Civil Service Matters
And how it is under threat by DOGE.
Mar 20
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Francis Fukuyama
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The Execution of Humphrey’s Executor
Why removing “for cause” protections would return us to the 19th century spoils system.
Feb 26
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Paul Verkuil
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The Execution of Humphrey’s Executor
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A Civil Service In Crisis
Americans are counting on public servants. But who’d want to be one?
Feb 24
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Peter Morrissey
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A Civil Service In Crisis
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Larry Diamond on the Spreading Crisis of Democracy
It's worse than you thought.
Feb 20
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Francis Fukuyama
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Larry Diamond on the Spreading Crisis of Democracy
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The Folly of Firing
What Musk gets wrong about making government smaller and cheaper, and why it matters.
Feb 18
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Don Kettl
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