INNOVATION IS great. Except when it’s just another excuse to wish problems away.
This week, President Trump tapped his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to run something called the White House Office of American Innovation. When Kushner’s not tending to all his other duties, which include securing peace between Israel and the Palestinians, he’s supposed to dream up bold, tech-forward ways of overhauling the federal bureaucracy and untangling a mishmash of job-training programs.
