Domestic Policy
Politics is the means you use to get the power to do the things you want to do. Policy is what you should be doing.
Policy should be largely technocratic — meaning shaped by a civil service of subject specialists with extreme oversight provided by the political class. (I use technocratic with caution, because so-called policy “elites” have given it a very bad name over the last decade.)
However, there are best practices learned from experiences all around the world that should shape what government does in a cycle of continuous improvement.
Of course, that’s generally not what government does. Politicians get power and pursue their bad and already failed ideas. Bureaucrats insist their floundering systems are the way it always has been done and always must be done.
Even so, we will try to accumulate those best practices here and evaluate accordingly. For serious wonks, I know this is very high level and each of these category areas could be a book on their own. This is intended to be a starting point for understanding policy choices:
We will add to this list over time and revise.