Archive - Statecraft

How to Be a Good Intelligence Analyst

“The first to get thrown under the bus is the intelligence community”

Aug 7 •

1:01:25

July 2025

How to Fix Foreign Aid

USAID's former Chief Economist reflects on DOGE

Jul 31 •

1:14:01

How Cheaply Could We Build High-Speed Rail?

“Amtrak and the commuter rail agencies have a mutually abusive relationship”

Jul 23 •

56:31

Governance Lessons From the Constitutional Convention

How Franklin, Madison, and Washington got things done, from 2022

Jul 4 •

13:42

More (Brief) Thoughts On DOGE

What have we learned in the last three months?

Jul 3 •

June 2025

How to Predict the Future

Jason Matheny on IARPA, originally published November 2023

Jun 25 •

1:24:18

How UK Biobank Was Built

Founding an institution that won't pay off for decades

Jun 19 •

48:44

What Can We Learn From Estonia?

"You can’t bribe a computer"

Jun 12 •

46:18

How to Save DC's Metro

Randy Clarke on abundance, the "transit-industrial complex," & the Bloop

Jun 5 •

33:12

May 2025

How to Run the Treasury Department

Kyla Scanlon & I talk Direct File, Democrats, and debt with Wally Adeyemo

May 28 •

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51:03

How to Build the '90s DOGE

"Congress ate dessert first and cut the number of people without simplifying the rules”

May 23 •

59:05

How the Federal Transit Administration Works

“If you've seen one transit agency, you've seen one transit agency”

May 14 •

1:19:53

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