Matthew Arnold

Ignoring the Referee: Court Defiance and America’s Last Guardrail

Democracies don’t usually die in a single dramatic moment. They erode quietly and gradually, through a thousand small surrenders. But occasionally, a government does something so blunt that it...

Hollowing out the State: DOGE and the Administrative Erosion of American Democracy

Suffolk University, Universities

On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order establishing the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), a body embedded within the existing U.S. Digital Service and led by tech...