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							<title><![CDATA[D.C. Is Overdue for a Department of Government Efficiency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.wsj.com/opinion/elon-and-vivek-can-make-government-work-again-trump-efficiency-commission-brings-accountability-6d5d8404?st=h6BQWL</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Trump'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s Department of Government Efficiency has a chance to bring accountability to federal regulation.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How to Curb Public Unions' Out-of-Control Power]]></title>
							<link>https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2021/02/23/how-curb-power-public-employee-unions/4538685001/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Public employee unions'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' are politically impregnable, but'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' their corrosion of'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' democratic governance may leave them open to'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' constitutional'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' attack.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Time to Blow Up the Bureaucracy That's Killing America]]></title>
							<link>https://nypost.com/2019/01/26/its-time-to-blow-up-the-bureaucracy-thats-killing-america/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jan 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[For decades now, Americans have slogged through a rising tide of idiocies.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Red Tape Is Strangling Good Samaritans]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/12/27/the-red-tape-strangling-good-samaritans.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government Has Made America Inept]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/05/04/government-has-made-america-inept.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2014 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In February 2011, during a winter storm, a tree fell into a creek in Franklin Township, New Jersey, and caused flooding. The town was about to send a tractor in to pull the tree out when someone, probably the town lawyer, helpfully pointed out that it was a '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'class C-1 creek'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';'...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Our Federal Government: A Deviant Subculture]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/08/reform-is-not-enough-the-federal-government-needs-a-complete-makeover/260669/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Behavior that would seem grotesque to most Americans doesn't raise an eyebrow inside the Beltway. Only radical change can fix the problem. A deviant subculture is defined by sociologist Anthony Giddens as one "whose members have values which differ substantially from those of the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bad Laws: It's Time to Clean House in D.C.]]></title>
							<link>http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/03/its-time-to-clean-house/253921/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' is mired in a tarpit of accumulated law. Reformers propose new laws to fix health care, schools, and the regulatory system, but almost never suggest cleaning out the legal swamp these institutions operate in. These complex legal tangles not only set goals but allocate resources...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Public-Union Albatross]]></title>
							<link>http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:spDm94TN-HYJ:online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204190704577024321510926692.html+The+Public-Union+Albatross+-+Philip+K.+Howard&amp;cd=2&amp;hl=en&amp;ct=clnk&amp;gl=us&amp;client=firefox-a</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The indictment of seven Long Island Rail Road workers for disability fraud last week cast a spotlight on a troubled government agency. Until recently, over 90% of LIRR workers retired with a disability'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'even those who worked desk jobs'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'adding about $36,000 to their annual...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America is Choking on Too Many Laws]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/10/AR2010121007132.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[America is choking on laws of our own making.Once a law is in place in the United States, it's almost impossible to  dislodge. Our political class assumes that, after a law is forged in the  crucible of democracy, it should be honored as if it's one of the Ten  Commandments - except it's...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[America is Drowning in Law]]></title>
							<link>http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2010/10/10/2010-10-10_drowning_in_law_a_flood_of_statutes_rules_and_regulations_is_killing_the_america.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Government is broken and the economy is gasping. The reason is the same: Americans no longer feel free to roll up their sleeves and make the choices needed to fix things. Governors come to office and find that 90% of the budget is pre-committed to entitlements and mandates enacted by...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Government Needs to Be Cleaned Out]]></title>
							<link>http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-26/philip-k-howard-manifesto-for-a-new-politics/?cid=bs:archive7</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Hailed by David Brooks for seizing "the crucial theme of the moment," lawyer and author Philip K. Howard proposes five ways to liberate America, streamline government, and revive our can-do spirit.Government is broken. It spends money we don'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'t have, takes no responsibility for the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Health Reform's Taboo Topic]]></title>
							<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/30/AR2009073002816.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Congress Is As Unresponsive to Consumers as Detroit]]></title>
							<link>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122965044381020605.html</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Philip Howard</author>
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