What to Do About Agency Capture

Then Republican vice presidential candidate Jack Kemp, former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under President George H.W. Bush, gives a speech to a crowd of about 300 at a Labor Day block party, in Flint, Mich., on Sept. 2, 1996. Matt Campbell/AFP via Getty Images

Commentary

Let’s just dig beneath the headlines for a bit, especially the ones celebrating or condemning this or that head of a federal government agency (it applies to state governments, too).