Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...

This became known as the “spoils system ... which established the merit appointment system still used today. It also put a virtual end to a system that allowed whichever party that won ...

The phrase “To the victor go the spoils” — Latin “spolia optima” — was used during the time of the Roman Empire’s conquest of much of Europe, the Middle East and parts of Asia. In practice, conquests ...

Donald Trump’s Schedule F order politicizing the federal workforce is a recipe for corruption that would make the country ...