Trump Targets an Ideal Born of a President’s Murder
The act of violence almost 150 years ago effectively gave birth to the civil service, that class of nonpartisan experts who ...
The civil service was once politicized. Then a president was assassinated.
Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...
The Danger of an ‘Accidental Aristocracy’
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Trump's nominee to be director of ...
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How a president's death helped kill Washington's "spoils system"
Hayes was succeeded by President James Garfield, who ran on reform. But only months after being sworn in, the spoils system exacted its most horrifying toll. Garfield was assassinated by a ...
Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies
Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...
Trump’s Corrupt Plan to Fire Federal Workers, Hire Loyalists and Build His Own ‘Deep State’
Shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing foreign aid, placing the agency’s 10,000 employees ...