Bureaucracy

With USAID now folded into the State Department, the Trump administration should focus on realigning U.S. global development aid toward strategic competition with China. With USAID now folded into the...

The F-20, despite having many things going for it, had some key weaknesses. Those weaknesses were exploited by America’s bureaucracy to make the case that the F-16 was a better...

Trump’s blitz against the independence of the civil service is undermining a core pillar of American democracy.  President Donald Trump showed his admiration for Andrew Jackson when, eight years ago,...

It’s difficult to think how maintaining the status quo of an entrenched, unaccountable bureaucracy that could routinely shun and obstruct the goals of a democratically-elected government is good for democracy....

Here’s What You Need To Remember: And Bobcat is a reminder that every forward naval or military base need not be an elaborate affair like a Yokosuka or Sasebo, home to...

Here’s What You Need to Remember:In short, top leaders need to shape a venturesome culture within the U.S. Navy, unlocking mariners’ energy and ingenuity. And they need to do so...

The Social Security Administration (SSA) this week announced a new change in how recipients’ statements look. In the SSA’s press release, Kilolo Kijakazi, Acting Commissioner of Social Security, addressed how...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Build habits suited to an age of open-ended strategic competition, resuscitate the pioneering ethos, and don’t be a control freak. Military innovation is all the rage...

Some people have made the headlines this year for a unique reason: they weren’t able to get their scheduled stimulus checks because the government believes that they’re dead. One Indiana...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: Current estimates indicate that for a single taxpayer who is eligible for the $10,200 tax break and is in the 22 percent tax bracket,...

It appears that the Internal Revenue Service is once again mired in a no-win situation. Much like the hiccups-filled disbursement of millions of coronavirus stimulus checks over the past year,...

In a speech last week, President Joe Biden noted that Xi Jinping “firmly believes that China, before the year [20]30, ‘35, is going to own America because autocracies can make quick...