| By Made by History / Produced by Olivia B. Waxman | Antipathy toward government bureaucracy has long been a potent force in U.S. politics, a feeling that the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) appears to be tapping in its effort to remake the federal government under President Trump. As Jacob Bruggeman and Casey Eilbert write in Made by History, while the extent of DOGE's disruptions are unprecedented, this isn't the first time a new administration has tried to "reinvent government." Bill Clinton and Al Gore's 1990s efforts to shrink the federal government were dramatic in the context of the time. But they led to mixed results, both in the political fortunes of the Democrats who championed the approach and in the impermanence of the cuts. DOGE represents a very different kind of project, but it could produce a similarly mixed outcome. | |
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| | | |  | The German Elections Could Transform the EU | If the far-right AfD performs well in Germany's national elections, it could have major implications for the EU. |
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|  | The 1930s Case That Sparked a Debate About Deportation | The story Frances Perkins, Franklin D. Roosevelt's Labor Secretary, highlights the importance of protecting due process. |
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|  | Politics Have Always Influenced the U.S. Service Academies | Even before the founding of West Point, politics shaped the military academy and what purpose it ought to serve. |
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|  | The Long Fight for Trans Inclusion in the Military | Legal challenges policies excluding trans people from military service are not solely a 21st century phenomenon. |
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|  | Why the Government Should Pay For University Research Costs | Our decentralized system of research was designed to produce an ambitious, but uniquely American, way of doing science. |
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|  | Ida B. Wells Taught us That Care and Justice Go Hand in Hand | This Black History Month, journalist Ida B. Wells can teach us the importance of community-based care. |
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|  | Harry Warner Proved Speaking Out Can Be Good Business | The founding President of Warner Bros. serves as an example of how to a grow business while exercising political savvy. |
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| | This week in 1959: Harry Belafonte |  | The Mar. 2, 1959 cover of TIME |
| Henry Koerner |
| "What Belafonte sings is not strictly folk music. He takes folk songs as starters and collaborates with Conductor-Composer Robert Corman, lyric writers and arrangers to make the special regional words and symbols of the songs meaningful to a wide audience. It is an audience he has virtually created for himself, because folk music has never before had mass appeal in the U.S. To protesting purists, Belafonte replies: 'All folk songs are interpretations. Otherwise you might as well go back to the first time and say 'ugh.'' He takes a tape recorder with him wherever he goes and the library of his apartment on Manhattan's West End Avenue is crammed with tapes of folk art he has tapped at its source." |
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| | This week in 1962: Tennessee Williams |  | The Mar. 9, 1962, cover of TIME |
| Bernard Safran |
| "No amount of technical skill can make a major playwright. He must have a vision of life. Williams has one. It is dark, it is narrow, it lacks the fuller resources of faith and love, but it is desperately honest. In the plays, it springs intuitively from the playwright's unconscious. Says Williams: 'There is a horror in things, a horror at heart of the meaninglessness of existence. Some people cling to a certain philosophy that is handed down to them and which they accept. Life has a meaning if you're bucking for heaven. But if heaven is a fantasy, we are in this jungle with whatever we can work out for ourselves. It seems to me that the cards are stacked against us. The only victory is how we take it.'" |
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| This week in 2002: Bono |  | The Mar. 4, 2002, cover of TIME |
| Sam Jones |
| "'I know how absurd it is to have a rock star talk about the World Health Organization or debt relief or HIV/AIDS in Africa,' Bono says. But he also knows that no one else with his kind of access to media and money has taken on the job. In an effort to keep the discussion serious and avoid the appearance of being just another rocker against bad things, he refrains from treating Africa as an emotional issue. 'We don't argue compassion,' he says. His argument is pragmatic, not preachy. 'We put it in the most crass terms possible; we argue it as a financial and security issue for America…There are potentially another 10 Afghanistans in Africa, and it is cheaper by a factor of 100 to prevent the fires from happening than to put them out.'" |
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