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Remember Aaron Lemon-Strauss, the executive director of FAFSA who wrote the brilliant response to a GAO report defending the product model? Well, he's just joined Recoding America as our chief digital and AI officer (hooray!) and has a few more wise and m

My husband and I are back in California for the summer, at least for one more week. Not Oakland, where we used to live, but in a remote town of 137 people in the Sierras. This place is paradise to me - a caring, close-knit community, incredible natural be

First, some quick (mostly unrelated) self-promotion: Andrew Greenway and I wrote an article for Foreign Affairs. We talk about the need for advanced democracies to relearn the art of starting over with new institutions when the old ones resist reform. It'

Earlier this week, the New York Times podcast The Daily covered what's happening to SNAP (food stamps) in Arizona. Arizona is ahead of the curve, so to speak, in implementing the work requirements H.R. 1 imposes, and the impacts are staggering. So far, ac

Last July, Liz Coalts brought her daughter to a North Carolina DMV office to get her learner's permit. They arrived at 4 a.m. There was already a line wrapped around the building, and they ended up standing next to a dumpster. Liz had come prepared. She'd

Nan Ransohoff recently blew the philanthropy world's collective mind with some observations that should have been clear to anyone willing to do a little math. Looking at three capital pools - the OpenAI Foundation (26% of OpenAI, roughly $220B), Anthropic

A few weeks ago, I sort of threw down the gauntlet here, calling for bolder transformation towards a new operating model for government. I borrowed the framework of the three horizons, in which the first horizon is the status quo, the third is the new sys

For the longer version of this post, go here.I got into government reform sixteen years ago, though I didn't think of it as reform at the time. I thought of it as just trying to make a few specific things work better. Since then I've worked at the local,

I got into government reform sixteen years ago, though I didn't think of it as reform at the time. I thought of it as just trying to make a few specific things work better. Since then I've worked at the local, state, and federal levels, on benefit deliver

Sometimes you ask Claude for a little help thinking something through, and the answer is good enough that it merits sharing more broadly. I've long had a back and forth with Dave Guarino about the value of metrics in changing bureaucratic behavior. It's o