More than 20 federal technology employees who were recently assigned to DOGE quit en masse with a letter Tuesday. The letter stated they’re refusing to use their technical expertise to "dismantle ...

The US government has never been known for its easy-to-use web platforms. At one point getting Medicare or Medicaid information could turn into hours of navigating an antiquated platform. But some of ...

The United States Digital Service (USDS), the storied group of Silicon Valley types brought together by Obama to bring government services into the 21st century, will likely never be the same after ...

BKC Affiliate Kathy Pham introduces The United States Digital Service Origins, an oral history of the USDS featuring nearly 50 interviews telling the story of technology and government. Alongside ...

How have the wild initial months of Donald Trump’s return to the White House landed on Washington? We asked the people who live and work here to tell us—in their own words. Today, we hear from two ...

In February 2025, a rumor regarding the Department of Government Efficiency spread on social media — that U.S. President Donald Trump merely renamed an office created by former President Barack Obama ...

Jennifer Pahlka is perhaps best known as the founder of Code for America, a widely respected nonprofit that helped formalize the principles of civic tech, a movement leveraging design and technology ...

In November 1988, the Morris worm—an experimental computer program written by a curious graduate student—unintentionally crippled the early Internet and exposed for the first time the serious ...