The federal government’s core civilian workforce has long been known for its professionalism. About 2.1 million nonpartisan career officials provide essential public services in such diverse areas as ...

"To the victor belong the spoils." For decades in the 1800s, that phrase was more than a slogan; it was the official hiring policy of the U.S. government. "You win the election, you're entitled to put ...

The “global spoils system,” or the way in which top posts at multilateral institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), regional development banks, and UN agencies are ...

Modern presidents like Reagan and Clinton used the spoils system to hold bureaucracies accountable and put their own ideological stamp on policies. Unfortunately, in postmodern times the rule of law ...

Throughout most of the 19th century, the lion’s share of appointments to federal jobs was rewarded to the faithful supporters of the winning candidate of the presidential elections. During that era, ...

Donald Trump is, for a second time, trying to revive the political spoils system, this time with a new Schedule F executive order in which he is attempting to reclassify tens of thousands of federal ...

After one term as president in which his promise to remake the massive federal government mostly came up short, Donald Trump again is raining fury on the “deep state,” pledging if elected in November ...

In recent months, Donald Trump’s campaign and conservative action groups have developed a coordinated strategy to gut the federal civil service, effectively returning the United States government to ...

Under the guise of flexibility, the Bush administration is quietly engineering a corporate takeover of government. President Bush has ordered all federal agencies to solicit bids from private ...

There have been many credible reports that a second Trump administration would feature an assault on the federal civil-service system in order to reduce “deep state” resistance to his authoritarian ...