Policy

The set of decisions Government makes about how to address public problems — distinct from politics (who holds power) and separate from law (the rules themselves). Kyle’s interest is in policy that works: evidence-based, measurable, honest about tradeoffs.

Michelle Tandler’s January 2020 thread on San Francisco (filed under Government and Policy) illustrates the lens: 35 pages of research into what produces the city’s dysfunction, concluding the problems are complex — a template for treating policy as empirical problem-solving rather than partisan signaling. Related: Experimental Budget Welfare, Public Health (where the measurable human cost of bad policy is clearest).

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