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🏛 Rules meant to constrain authority don't create accountability—they destroy it, creating "accountability sinks." — Hamilton-Hart New Enabling Acts is out — 7 papers on state capacity, critical minerals, immigration, and housing. 🧵 www.enablingacts.org/p/june-10-us...

🏗 U.S. mine permitting takes 7–10 years vs. 2–3 in Canada; 27 reforms could cut timelines 60%. Kerman et al. 🗽 Cutting H-1B visas screened out the most talented workers, not the least. @kevinshih.bsky.social et al.

🏛 The government built two of the world's best information platforms but is now gutting them. Weiss 🏡 Massachusetts is forcing towns to zone for apartments near transit—and surviving legal challenges. Holmes