Working the Commons

A forum for professionalism and competence in government.

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  • Welcome to Working the Commons

    October 29th, a Tuesday 92 years ago, saw the colossal failure of laissez faire capitalism. Entrusting the future of the world’s most promising democracy to a tiny elite of trust fund babies, oil tycoons and financial buccaneers was a spectacular failure. It cost millions of immigrants and first-generation Americans their shot at the American…