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Statecraft — 76 episodes
Merit vs. Tenure: Reforming Federal Firing
"The Strongman Presidency"
How the National Security Strategy Gets Made
Ten Thoughts on Government Data
When FAFSA Broke, They Called This Guy
How a Congressional Office Actually Works
How to Rewire City Hall
What’s Wrong with Nonprofits?
One Year of Trump’s Economic Statecraft
What’s Wrong with NIH Grants?
99.8% of Federal Employees Get Good Performance Reviews. Why?
Did the CHIPS "Everything Bagel"...Work?
How to Save Science Funding
Should the Feds Bail Out Chicago?
How Diplomacy Works in Africa
How to Run New York City
A Statecraft Fall Roundup
Is the Senate Fixing Housing Policy?
Why We Don't Build Apartments for Families
How to Bring Down Healthcare Costs
What Is America’s Infrastructure Cost Problem?
How to Write the AI Action Plan
Leninist Technocracy with Grand Opera Characteristics
Four Ways to Fix Government HR
How to Be a Good Intelligence Analyst
How to Fix Foreign Aid
How Cheaply Could We Build High-Speed Rail?
Governance Lessons from the Constitutional Convention
How to Predict the Future
How UK Biobank Was Built
What Can We Learn from Estonia?
How to Save DC's Metro
How to Run the Treasury Department
How to Build the '90s DOGE
How the Federal Transit Administration Works
How to Salvage a Transit Project
How to Run a $5 Trillion Payment System
How to Fix Risk Assessment in Child Welfare
How to Fix a Department's Funding Tools
How to Beat Crime in New York City
50 Thoughts on DOGE
How to Run a Private Military Company
There Are Too Many Judicial Injunctions
How to Beat Megafires
Why the Two Parties Operate Differently
How to Budget for the SEC
How to Win an Election Against the Communists
What to Expect from DOGE
What Can the Brits Teach Us About State Capacity?
Did the Courts Just Nuke Environmental Review?
How to Stage a Coup
How Bureaucracy Is Breaking Government
How to Build a Flying Ebola Hospital
How to Produce a Kamikaze Drone
How to Rebuild the Arsenal of Democracy
Does Anyone in Government Care About Productivity Growth?
How to Prep Hospitals for a Shooting War
How OIRA Works
How to Build State Capacity
How to Make a World Cup Bid
How to Fix Defense Procurement
How to Build the British ARPA
How Statecraft Works
How to Modernize Congress
How to Defend Presidential Authority
How to Report Inflation to the President
How to Invest Federal Funds Like a VC
How to Calm Oil Markets
How to Hide the President’s Condition
How to Catch a Lab Leak
How to Ban Biological Weapons
How to Present Decisions to POTUS
How to Shape a Market
How to Run a CIA Base in Afghanistan
How to Secure Weapons-Grade Uranium
How to Save Twenty Million Lives