The Staff Academy

by | May 16, 2021 | Congress, Staff

Catherine Szpindor, Chief Administrative Officer at House of Representatives, testified before the House Select Committee on the Modernization of Congress: CAO training has evolved. It began with a few classrooms where you could learn WordPerfect and other technical...

The Need for Regulatory Reform

by | May 15, 2021 | Bureaucracy, Regulation

Shoshana Weissman at R Street: “Regulations don’t always work as planned,” says Tom W. Bell, Professor of Chapman University’s Dale E. Fowler School of Law in They Say It Can’t Be Done, a documentary highlighting four world-changing technologies and how the people...

The Struggle for Democracy

by | May 13, 2021 | Democracy

Martin Wolf at The Financial Times: The fact that Trump is lying is not news. What is news is that, even shorn of public office, Trump defines the truth for his party. There is a word for a political organisation in which the prime duty of members is absolute loyalty...

Big Lie

by | May 11, 2021 | Insurrection

Dan Rather at Steady: The Big Lie must be the context for everything that is taking place in Washington, and political stories across the country. It is not old news. January 6 is not old news. This denial of reality is the animating principle driving the Republican...