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by Philip Wallach

Oct 27, 2020

issues: Federal Government Affairs, Governance, Restoring the First Branch

originally published in The Bulwark

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Our public agencies and political leadership have been caught flatfooted by it, and the price tag for these failures has been high in human lives and economic losses.

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