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Statecraft

Santi Ruiz

Statecraft is an interview series about how policy actually gets made. www.statecraft.pub

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80 episodes

  1. How to Give Money + Should You Quit Your Job? 1:07:19
  2. How to Build a Policy School 57:03
  3. How to Build an Authoritarian Regime 1:21:36
  4. The James C. Scott Memorial Episode 1:03:46
  5. Merit vs. Tenure: Reforming Federal Firing 45:45
  6. "The Strongman Presidency" 58:17
  7. How the National Security Strategy Gets Made 58:22
  8. Ten Thoughts on Government Data 13:00
  9. When FAFSA Broke, They Called This Guy 1:15:08
  10. How a Congressional Office Actually Works 1:09:16
  11. How to Rewire City Hall 1:01:49
  12. What’s Wrong with Nonprofits? 1:26:12
  13. One Year of Trump’s Economic Statecraft 1:32:18
  14. What’s Wrong with NIH Grants? 1:11:27
  15. 99.8% of Federal Employees Get Good Performance Reviews. Why? 1:02:18
  16. Did the CHIPS "Everything Bagel"...Work? 1:35:35
  17. How to Save Science Funding 1:00:50
  18. Should the Feds Bail Out Chicago? 1:05:47
  19. How Diplomacy Works in Africa 1:35:40
  20. How to Run New York City 1:18:07
  21. A Statecraft Fall Roundup 36:48
  22. Is the Senate Fixing Housing Policy? 1:08:48
  23. Why We Don't Build Apartments for Families 57:34
  24. How to Bring Down Healthcare Costs 1:22:18
  25. What Is America’s Infrastructure Cost Problem? 33:35
  26. How to Write the AI Action Plan 1:25:05
  27. Leninist Technocracy with Grand Opera Characteristics 1:20:48
  28. Four Ways to Fix Government HR 1:03:02
  29. How to Be a Good Intelligence Analyst 1:01:26
  30. How to Fix Foreign Aid 1:14:01
  31. How Cheaply Could We Build High-Speed Rail? 56:32
  32. Governance Lessons from the Constitutional Convention 13:42
  33. How to Predict the Future 1:24:18
  34. How UK Biobank Was Built 48:45
  35. What Can We Learn from Estonia? 46:18
  36. How to Save DC's Metro 33:13
  37. How to Run the Treasury Department 51:03
  38. How to Build the '90s DOGE 59:06
  39. How the Federal Transit Administration Works 1:19:53
  40. How to Salvage a Transit Project 1:06:49
  41. How to Run a $5 Trillion Payment System 51:41
  42. How to Fix Risk Assessment in Child Welfare 58:37
  43. How to Fix a Department's Funding Tools 1:00:25
  44. How to Beat Crime in New York City 56:33
  45. 50 Thoughts on DOGE 27:21
  46. How to Run a Private Military Company 53:06
  47. There Are Too Many Judicial Injunctions 33:15
  48. How to Beat Megafires 58:24
  49. Why the Two Parties Operate Differently 28:53
  50. How to Budget for the SEC 40:08