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NASA employees say they've lost vital equipment and staff needed to make sophisticated spacecraft amid the agency's abrupt relocations over the past several months.

In August of 2025, the White House announced the creation of a new office called the National Design Studio and tasked it with rebuilding some of the most sensitive websites across the federal governm...

Vinton, Merici, Melanie Girod, and Omar Morales. 2026. “The Life and Death of Direct File.” University of California, Berkeley.

The fallout from Elon Musk’s cost-cutting venture can be found across the government if you know where to look.

While the pace of change can be overwhelming, there is something clarifying about a moment when people are questioning the value of institutions themselves. This is the time for radical experimentatio...

What happens next? Well, you tell me.

We CAN have nice things - if we want them

"Inevitability" means design decisions are no longer informed by user needs; now they are unilaterally imposed. The users are the ones being designed.

Queer Relocation Nonprofit in Denver, Colorado

The Office of the City Administrator and its 25+ divisions and departments operate core internal and public-facing services in San Francisco.   The Office of the City Administrator’s Mission and Visio...

Some of the recruits to government service will be on leaves of absence from private sector companies while working for government — a setup that raises ethical questions about conflicts of interest.

Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

On the one-month anniversary of her passing, we honor the acclaimed disability justice advocate, writer, shit-talker, and friend to so many.

Design is being hijacked to create legitimacy for bad ideas. We can do better.

Elizabeth Goodspeed's latest op-ed in the Architect's Newspaper about the White House's so-called national design studio gets one thing exactly right: the problem being solved here isn’t real. There ...

I had the opportunity to speak at the 2025 DotGov Design conference. My talk was titled “Design for Accessibility and Inclusiveness in Civic Space” which covered topics such as why it's so important t...

About U.S. Digital Response U.S. Digital Response (USDR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to helping governments and civic institutions respond quickly and efficiently to support the...

Fact Graph . Contribute to IRS-Public/fact-graph development by creating an account on GitHub.

After building the IRS’s free electronic filing tool, the Economic Security Project’s Future of Tax Filing fellows are writing a playbook for it to “come back someday” — and pushing for more.