Uploaded March 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Jen Pahlka, author of Recoding America and founder of the Recoding America Fund joins ChinaTalk to discuss:
Why AI could help governments cut through regulatory cruft, but can’t replace the political will needed to reform it.
How state-level competition and experimentation could accelerate government reform.
Why even obvious bureaucratic fixes are difficult because nearly every dysfunctional policy has a constituency that benefits from it.
The Recoding America Fund’s mission to build a cross-ideological coalition to modernize government’s operating model.
Plus, we talk about 7,119 pages of New Jersey unemployment insurance regulations, why drastically cutting the defense budget might improve national security, and why the toughest questions about public programs aren’t technical, but fundamentally political.
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Jen Pahlka, author of Recoding America and founder of the Recoding America Fund joins ChinaTalk to discuss:
Why AI could help governments cut through regulatory cruft, but can’t replace the political will needed to reform it.
How state-level competition and experimentation could accelerate government reform.
Why even obvious bureaucratic fixes are difficult because nearly every dysfunctional policy has a constituency that benefits from it.
The Recoding America Fund’s mission to build a cross-ideological coalition to modernize government’s operating model.
Plus, we talk about 7,119 pages of New Jersey unemployment insurance regulations, why drastically cutting the defense budget might improve national security, and why the toughest questions about public programs aren’t technical, but fundamentally political.
YOU SHOULD SIGN UP TO MY WEEKLY NEWSLETTER!
chinatalk.substack.com
The podcast is also available in your favorite app, just search ChinaTalk!
