Hundreds of thousands of federal employees were laid off or quit in 2025. Many found new purpose and less bureaucracy in ...

A sprawling welfare scheme that saw fraudsters steal over $9 billion in Minnesota is a damning indictment of a federal and state bureaucracy that failed at some of its most basic responsibilities to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Roger Valdez writes about housing economics and policy. Later this month, I’ll be heading to Washington DC to speak with ...

Federal employees will receive back pay. Those laid off were rehired. SNAP benefits were paid out and will continue even if another shutdown occurs. Military and essential personnel will continue ...

Our nation just experienced the longest government shutdown in its history. The 43-day shutdown, which came smack in the middle of the fall semester, showed every family how unnecessary the federal ...

Deliberative democracy is now officially entangled in state bureaucracy. And that’s good news.