List of Government Bureaucracy articles
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About a dozen people stand on a low stone-brick wall with red-white-and-blue protest signs and flags as they demonstrate outside a brutalist concrete building with a sign reading the "Frances Perkins Department of Labor Building." The U.S. Government’s Repair Bills Are Coming Due
Decades of accumulated technical debt have hollowed out state capacity.
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A member of Capitol security walks through an empty rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington on Oct. 1, the first day of the most recent U.S. government shutdown. How a U.S. Government Shutdown Could Impact Washington’s Foreign Policy
Thousands of national security employees will continue working through the shutdown, but there are broader implications.
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Elon Musk looks on as U.S. President Donald Trump meets with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, D.C. What’s Next for Elon Musk?
Sidelined by Trump and facing a business backlash, the world’s richest man plots his next steps.
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An illustration shows The Thinker statue cut in half with a chainsaw resting next to it. Efficiency Isn’t Everything
Successful delivery of state services requires judgment, not chainsaws.
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About 20 people of a crowd are seen holding signs under a gray sky and the large white dome of the U.S. Capitol building in the background. Many of the signs; a boy about 12 at the front of the crowd holds a hand-lettered sign that says "Both my parents lost their jobs due to President Musk. How does this make America great again?" Foreign Autocrats Are Exploiting Trump’s Chaos
Spending cuts in Washington are creating openings for repressive regimes.
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A pile of building letters removed from the sign on the headquarters of the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington on Feb. 7. Attacking Government Workers Has Long Been a Presidential Pastime
Donald Trump’s attempt to dismantle the federal bureaucracy is the latest in a string of efforts by both parties.
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Donald Trump tosses a pen into the crowd holding several pens in the other hand How to Assess Trump’s Early Moves
On FP Live, three experts on three continents try to find the signal in the noise.
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio greets employees at the State Department in Washington, DC, on January 21, 2025. The National Security Establishment Needs Working-Class Americans
President Trump has an opportunity to unleash underutilized talent in tackling dangers at home and abroad.
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Migrant workers mingle outside their living quarters in Beijing's middle-class neighborhood of Shangdi. Xi Jinping Doesn’t Have an Answer for China’s Demographic Crisis
A call for a “high-quality population” ignores the country’s real problems.
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An activist prepares a balloon painted to look like planet Earth and decorated with orange hair and eyebrows in the likeness of U.S. President Donald Trump during a climate protest prior to a meeting of European Union leaders at the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany. How a Second Trump Term Will Redefine Foreign Aid
A Heritage Foundation report offers a roadmap of sweeping changes.
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The facade of the British Prime Minister's residence, 10 Downing Street, is covered in scaffolding as essential cleaning and maintenance work is carried out, in London, on August 4, 2008. Britain Has a Much Bigger Problem Than Brexit
The official investigation into the U.K.’s pandemic response has revealed a fundamentally dysfunctional state.
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An illustration shows a gavel cracking down on a digitized background of ones and zeroes for a story about regulating artificial intelligence. The Global Race to Regulate AI
The intelligence may be artificial, but the regulation is real—or might be.
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An illustration for Puck magazine from 1905 shows the battle against bureaucracy. Only an Absolute Bureaucracy Can Save Us
The West will only restore its stability when civil servants are again devoted to the public rather than themselves.
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Protesters wave flags during a rally in Almaty. Kazakhstan’s Reforms Should Be More Than Just Show
Promised changes after January’s chaos are unpromising so far.
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CIA headquarters Washington’s Secrecy Bubble Needs to Be Popped
Too much classification undermines the rule of law. Here’s how to fix a broken system.
