The Niskanen Center recently submitted a comment in response to a Request for Information (RFI) from the Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) on the carbon-emission ...

Last October, we posited that Congress could reach a bipartisan deal on permitting reform to address project timelines and get more transmission and clean energy built. With the introduction of the ...

Families with young children are potentially eligible for dozens of public benefits to support them during periods of unemployment and to supplement their earnings during periods of employment. Access ...

This is the second of a two-part exploration of the FBI’s attempt to build a modern digital case management system between 2000 and 2012. In Part One, public interest technologist Mark Lerner tracks ...

The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) last week released No Surprises Act (NSA) payment data for the last half of 2025, providing the public’s first complete look at how the law ...

Drive through almost any established suburb in the United States, and you’ll see the pattern: single-family homes large enough for growing families occupied by just one or two retirees whose children ...

For a break with past practices on housing affordability, it’ll be hard to beat the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, newly passed by Congress with overwhelming bipartisan majorities. In a single ...

In her 2026 State of the State address in January, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul outlined an ambitious transit infrastructure agenda. Not only would the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) move ...

President Trump’s dismissal of 17 federal inspectors general en masse; high-profile IG investigations of alleged mismanagement at two Cabinet departments; a high-stakes controversy over the Government ...

Large-scale IT modernization projects fail with remarkable regularity. They fail in private companies with strong profit incentives and unified leadership. They fail in state and local governments ...

You’d never know it from the cavalcade of federally focused headlines this past year, but most public servants in the United States don’t work for the federal government. They work for states and ...

Artificial intelligence offers potential for governmental transformation, but like all emerging technologies, it can only catalyze meaningful change when paired with effective operating models.