Optimizing for outcomes will require building out a range of local public and private institutions.

DOGE imagines a State running on the power of algorithms. Both sides of the debate raise critical questions on State capacity — which the Indian debate also should engage with.

The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection announced that Harkness Memorial State Park in Waterford was closed because its lot reached capacity.

Transparency is a key part of the administrative state. You have to be able to see what an agency is doing and grasp what it’s up to. In DOGE’s case, we have the opposite of that.