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It’s Time for a Government Reset, and the Ideas Are Flourishing

New tools and approaches have inspired a radical rethinking of the machinery of government

M. Mitchell Waldrop
Knowable Magazine
Thu, 08/19/2021 - 12:02
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This story was originally published by Knowable Magazine.

If the cascading upheavals of the past year have done nothing else, they’ve spurred widespread calls for reform and renewal in just about every institution we have.

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A mishandled public-health response to the Covid-19 pandemic, an economic crisis, a racial reckoning, an uncommonly long string of hurricanes, wildfires, and other climate-enhanced disasters—almost everything that’s happened in these tumultuous months grew out of problems that had been swept under the rug for decades, says Anita Chandra, who directs the social and economic well-being program at RAND Corp. “The issues around police-related violence and systemic racism were brewing,” she says. “The issues around sustainability were brewing. The widening income inequality gap was not just brewing, it was full throttle.”

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