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In Defense Of The Slow Commute

Article by The Editor · 29 July 2026

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The new express line shaves nine minutes off the morning run and removes the only nine minutes of the day nobody expects anything from you. We should be arguing about this more.

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The Quiet Case For Boring Government

Article by The Editor

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Three departments hit their targets this quarter and nobody wrote about it, because functional bureaucracy generates no headlines and no villains. Here is the headline anyway.

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