The U.S. is witnessing in these last couple of weeks with the firings of civil servants is an attempt to return to the old ...

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 ...