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The government is a vast, complex system that Americans pay for, rebel against, rely upon, dismiss, and celebrate. It’s also our shared resource for addressing the biggest problems of society. Michael Lewis, a journalist with an uncanny ability to find one-of-a-kind characters, invited his favorite writers – comedian W. Kamau Bell, novelist Dave Eggers, and historian Sarah Vowell – to do the same for a special series Who is Government? for The Washington Post. These essays profile government workers who are largely unrecognized but doing uniquely consequential work.
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