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The haphazard nihilism of America’s new Department of Government Efficiency

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Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN (CNN) — First, they fired the people who look after the nuclear bombs, then had to hurriedly find where they went and hire them back. They got rid of the government agricultural workers responsible for fighting bird flu — which has sent the cost of America’s breakfast soaring. Then, amid rising public concern that an Ebola outbreak in Africa could leapfrog to the US, Elon Musk took his chainsaw to the most prom…

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Carman: The cruel consequences of moving fast and breaking things

In this frenzied era of moving fast and breaking things, it’s hard to tell which is worse: the cynical intended consequences of reckless policies or the clueless unintended ones. One thing’s for sure, though, either way they leave colossal messes to clean up. In one example that looked like a scene straight out of “Dr. Strangelove,” we have the story of some 350 civil servants at the National Nuclear Security Administration being fired last mon…

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