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Nov 13, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Philip Howard
Most Americans know that Washington is overdue for a Department of Government Efficiency, which President-elect Trump announced on Tuesday will be led by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy. But what should such a commission fix? Many of Mr. Trump’s supporters talk about purging the “deep state,” starting by changing the status of senior civil servants to employees at the will of the president.
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Aug 16, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Philip Howard
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Mar 30, 2024 | 
medium.com | Philip Howard
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Mar 24, 2024 | 
dailynews.com | Philip Howard
Look at American culture. Something basic is missing. Americans know it. Nothing much works as it should. Simple daily choices seem fraught with peril. In the workplace, we walk on eggshells. Big projects—say, modernizing infrastructure—get stalled in years of review. Endemic social problems such as homelessness become, well, more endemic. Oh, there goes San Francisco. Doing what’s right is not on the table. Who’s to say what’s right? Extremism grows.
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Philip Howard |Mark Tooley |David Schaefer |John O. McGinnis
Editor’s Note: The following is adapted from the author’s recently released book, Everyday Freedom. Trust in institutions is at all-time lows. Schools and hospitals are distrusted by two-thirds of Americans, large companies by even more, and Congress by almost everybody. The one trust bright spot is small business, with a 65 percent trust level. What is it that small business has that other institutions do not? Small business retains the human connection.
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Feb 12, 2024 | 
lawliberty.org | Philip Howard |David Schaefer |John O. McGinnis |Rachel Ferguson
On December 22, as New York’s LaGuardia Airport was filled with holiday travelers, Tommy Dorfman, an actor who played a gay male on the Netflix teen drama “Thirteen Reasons Why” but then “came out” as a transgender female in 2021, held up the Delta line as “she” denounced an airplane employee for having intentionally “misgendered” her.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
linkedin.com | Philip Howard
By Philip K. Howard, legal reformer, lawyer, author and New York civic leader:Trump carried every county in Iowa except one. What accounts for the Trump juggernaut? My take is that all his rivals, Biden included, promise to be better leaders of the established order. Trump embodies rejection, even disdain, for the establishment. For years now, Americans have seen that nothing much works as it should.
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Sep 15, 2023 | 
washingtonexaminer.com | Philip Howard
The winner in the overtime pay sweepstakes in Los Angeles last year was a fire captain with $510,000 on top of his $169,000 salary. No one, however, multiplied their base salary as proficiently as a “trouble dispatcher” for the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, who received over $357,000, nearly seven times his salary of $55,000. The Orange County Register reported that in 2022, more than 3,600 public employees in California received at least $100,000 in overtime pay.
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Apr 4, 2023 | 
time.com | Philip Howard
Today, in a runoff election for mayor, Chicago voters will choose either former teacher Brandon Johnson or former schools CEO Paul Vallas. What’s raising eyebrows is the funding of Johnson’s campaign: Over 90 percent has come from teachers unions and other public employee unions. Vallas has the endorsement of the police union, but his funding is more diverse, including business leaders and industrial unions.
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Mar 27, 2023 | 
thebulwark.com | Philip Howard
[Attorney and writer Philip K. Howard joined Beg to Differ on March 24, 2023. In his new book, Not Accountable: Rethinking the Constitutionality of Public Employee Unions, he argues that public sector unions have undermined constitutional governance, and the remedy lies with the courts.]Philip K. Howard: The reason I think [there’s] a constitutional solution . . . is that public employees have a fiduciary duty to the public sector, and to the common good. . . .
