The Gordian Knot of Governance: How Transparency Centralized Power

Oct 14th 2025 3:41pm EDT

From the 2009 stimulus to the open-data era, the Obama administration’s continuity-of-government vehicle transformed a policy of democratic visibility into an infrastructure of control—linking government, academia, philanthropy, and global capital into a single lattice of power. The 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) inaugurated a new era of governance through data. What began as […]

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