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As political red meat, ''the deconstruction of the administrative state'' sounds like a yawn -- too academic, too abstract, too boring, too many syllables. Yet Stephen K. Bannon, the right-wing [...]

MANALI, India -- To John Sims, the Himalayas, with some of the finest mountain slopes in the world, seemed like the perfect place to build India's first Western-style ski resort. [...]

ALMOST every worker has been frustrated by bureaucratic obstacles at one time or another. Even with the best of intentions, organizations sometimes snag their employees in impossible tangles of rules [...]

When historians look back on the period between 2001 and 2011, they will be amazed that a nation that professed to hate bureaucracy produced so much of it. During the [...]

TOKYO -- Six months after his party's historic election victory, tumbling approval ratings and mounting troubles threaten to make Yukio Hatoyama end up as just another unpopular Japanese prime minister. [...]

President-elect Barack Obama and a Democratic Congress are about to serve up a supersized helping of big-government liberalism. Conservatives will be inclined to oppose much of what Obama and his […]

In a far-reaching critique of the way the Pentagon fights wars and buys weapons, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that the military must understand the limits of combat […]

For now, the most powerful law enforcement official in the federal government is a 47-year-old lawyer little known outside Washington. Or inside Washington, for that matter. He is acting Attorney […]