bureaucracy

A federal judge granted a motion restoring access to the Internet, for the first time in seven years, to employees in various offices at the U.S. Department of the Interior.

As part of a class-action suit filed against the Interior Department 12 years ago, American Indian plaintiffs convinced a judge that their Indian Trust accounts, which are managed by the agency, were not safe from hackers. In December 2001, Interior hustled to disconnect, and then hustled to find ways for the thousand-plus affected employees to get their jobs done in the Internet age, without the Internet.

Bush's foreign aid legacy

Institutions born of so-called "bipartisan efforts" should be judged guilty until proven innocent, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation is a bipartisan baby.  Four years ago, Congress created the MCC to revolutionize foreign aid by parceling it out countries that showed progress in political and economic reform.  In his State of the Union address last Monday, George W. Bush praised this hulking sloth of a bureaucracy, quite rightly, as one of the legacies of his administration. MORE