This was both fascinating and frustrating. It confirmed a lot of my thoughts about the inner-workings of government (it’s more complicated and harder than people think). Even though it came out in 2023, it has an Obama-era optimisim that reads as more dated than it should because of how much the landscape has shifted in two years.
Recoding America by Jennifer Pahlka
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