There is so much inefficiency in American life. If only Musk would focus his many talents on the real problems, not the stuff ...

The conventional wisdom — really, it’s an Article of Faith for the Republican Party — is that the federal bureaucracy is a hopeless swamp of waste, fraud and inefficiency staffed by lazy, incompetent ...

Bureaucracy makes the federal government a model employer, a dedicated administrator of programs, and a guardian of freedom and justice. It does this in spite of the fact that most of the tasks ...

But his mere presence hurts public confidence in the FBI, and it does so in a way that further illustrates a persistent and enduring national problem: America’s permanent bureaucracy is ...

Totalitarian bureaucracy necessitates a constant state of crisis and there is no better creator of crises than imperial machinations.

The author is the Washington bureau chief of the JoongAng Ilbo. “Summarize five key tasks you completed last week and send them via email.” This was the directive issued by Elon Musk, CEO of ...

The bureaucracy consistently produced results more boneheaded than any individual would have devised. Much of the prolificacy and inefficiency in local transit systems is the result of federal ...

The foreign aid complex is a racket. The harm it has done over the decades far exceeds its egregious waste of taxpayer dollars. For years, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and its ...

Yet air supremacy isn’t an American birthright; it has to be won every time. The first contract for the F-35, then called the Joint Strike Fighter, was signed in 2001. It wasn’t until 2024 ...

But as someone who has battled his fair share of American bureaucracy lately, I’ll say this: there’s plenty Musk could be doing to improve government efficiency, and somebody needs to do it.