Tom Temin Commentary

Senate confirmation isn’t a requisite for making a difference

A quiet update for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation shows how reorgs can work without flamethrowing.

If the government regulates or bans, its best basis is an evidence-driven one.

If you compute, you are dealing with an international supply chain, period.

More civilian and military feds are writing code, reversing a long outsourcing trend.

The U.S. Postal Service is preparing to pull out of an international shipping rate agreement.

Google-Facebook suit leads to road we’ve been down before

Using animals in federal programs is sometimes necessary. So is treating them properly.

What’s next for big federal parcel in SE D.C. could take years to sort out

The tools are more modern, but Defense Department office procedures are durable.

Former Navy Adm. Bill Moran’s early retirement demonstrates an old lesson in sticking to the rules.

The General Services Administration’s multiple-award schedule contracts generate about $45 billion in annual sales. The challenge will be to build portals, not flea markets.

The government management ranks aren’t totally at odds with their employees.

The agency’s IG report on two Trump administration appointees reads like a politicals’ manual for what not to do.