opinion
INJUSTICE
From bad cops getting new jobs to unfireable bad teachers—the lack of accountability should be a national shame, and an embarrassment to progressives.
Philip K. Howard, lawyer and author, is Chair of Common Good, a nonpartisan group advocating to simplify government. His new book is Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions.
opinion
WHAT WORKS
With every election, voter dissatisfaction grows more pronounced as the Democrats and Republicans fail to deliver good government and the personal responsibility that goes with it.
LET’S MAKE A DEAL
In theory, both sides want infrastructure improvements. But Democrats are wedded to burdensome reviews, and Republicans to zero taxes. Kushner: make ’em deal.
Drain It For Real
Trump was elected on a mandate to clean out Washington. Does he really intend to keep that promise? Well, here’s how he can do it.
Way Beyond the Beltway
The culture of Washington is totally unchangeable. But we can breathe new life into government agencies by taking them out of Washington. Yes, really.
DONALD’S AMERICA
We are now at a point in politics, a new book warns, where reality has lost its authority: Facts are considered a matter of opinion.
Who’s In Charge Here?
Congress won’t fund projects, but even if it did, they’d never get built. Here are three ways to speed the process and add accountability.
Enough Already
Regulations and rules are making it harder to do the right thing.
Harmful Help
In an excerpt from his new book, The Rule of Nobody, Philip K. Howard argues that mindless legal rigidity is strangling common sense solutions to our problems.
The government-shutdown drama was just the latest example of Washington's paralysis. So how can we get America moving forward? In this week's Newsweek, 20 big thinkers, from Google's Eric Schmidt to Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, tell Philip K. Howard how.