To The Guardian The Right hates regulation and red tape, but this ideological hostility only seems to extend to relieving big business and the private sector. By contrast, the last three decades have seen the public sector crushed under regulatory burdens and tied up in red tape, often in a bizarre attempt at making schools, …
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The quality of American politics and policy seems to be going from bad to worse. Neither Republicans nor Democrats are offering compelling and optimistic visions of the future that are supported with popular enthusiasm. Trump’s approval ratings are unusually low for a president at this point in their tenure, but Democrats aren’t exactly getting people …
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“We are in an ugly era of people who do not understand what the legislative branch is even for,” says Andy Karsner, who served as assistant secretary of energy for efficiency and renewable energy in the George W. Bush administration and is now based in California, working with entrepreneurs as managing partner of the Emerson …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03YjwYb7_J8. The first video in the Best of the Week series, a 5 minute opinion piece by Ezra Klein on why Trump’s policies are a greater scandal than his Russia ties. Trump promised to be a different sort of Republican, protecting entitlements like Social Security and Medicare, even if it came at the expense of …
