Rules Can't Think: Why Government Needs Radical Simplification
The U.S. government has become a rusty pile of accumulated entitlements, endless forms, and overlapping programs. More »
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Philip K. Howard is a lawyer, author and chair of Common Good. He is the author, most recently, of Life Without Lawyers: Restoring Responsibility in America, and wrote the introduction to Al Gore's Common Sense Government. More
The U.S. government has become a rusty pile of accumulated entitlements, endless forms, and overlapping programs. More »
You shouldn't have to hire a team of lawyers just to be able to start a business. More »
To cure the deviant subculture of government, abandon bureaucracy and put humans on the spot. More »
Behavior that would seem grotesque to most Americans doesn't raise an eyebrow inside the Beltway. Only radical change can fix the problem. More »
By separating valid claims from invalid ones, judges can finally give our legal system the predictability that it requires. More »
People shouldn't face the threat of litigation for voicing their honest professional opinions. More »
A free society needs rules -- and therefore rule enforcers -- to safeguard common resources and provide stability. More »
To make the justice system fairer for all, courtrooms need to push back on absurd plaintiff claims. More »
Whatever the Supreme Court decides about the individual mandate, the main battle remains to be fought: how to rein in the grotesque costs of the current system. More »
The consensus is clear: America's school bureaucracy rots the quality of public education. Here's how we can move forward and reform the system. More »
Successful schools don't have a formula, other than that teachers and principals are free to follow their instincts. More »
Our founders didn't anticipate that it would be much harder to repeal a law than pass it in the first place. Here's how we can revise the status quo and build a more efficient democracy. More »
A conversation with Guido Calabresi, a senior judge on the U.S.Court of Appeals's second circuit, on how outmoded legislation can be cleanly wiped from the books More »
We elect new representatives, but continue on with policy from decades ago. To go forward, Congress needs to confront the past. More »
The next president will be impelled and empowered to reform it. More »
In his own words: "We have to abandon the arrogant belief that the world is merely a puzzle to be solved" More »
American politics are dominated by narrow special interests. How can our country dismantle this politics of selfishness? More »
Rather than focus on good reforms, the U.S. government should change its entire legal system More »
Democracy can't function when essential choices are dictated by laws passed decades ago and armies of special interest groups More »
Economic reforms are important, but regulatory reforms are also necessary to promote small business. More »
