Philip K. Howard

Hiding in plain sight is a fatal defect of modern democracy. Public employee unions have a death grip on the operating machinery of government. Philip K. Howard argues that union controls have disempowered elected executives and should be unconstitutional.....

Americans are losing the freedom to make sense of daily choices....

Something basic is missing in our culture. Americans know it. Nothing much works as it should. Simple daily choices seem impossible, or fraught with peril. In the workplace, we walk on eggshells. Big projects get stalled in years of review. Endemic social problems such as homelessness become...