In the 1800s, the main job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty to the newly-elected president. But after a ...
Donald Trump is, for a second time, trying to revive the political spoils system, this time with a new Schedule F executive ...
Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...
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 ...
A 19th-century presidential assassination was a signature event in helping the U.S. establish a meritocratic system for ...
Donald Trump enters his second presidency, as he did his first, pledging to wield executive power in novel and aggressive ...
President Donald Trump signed a number of executive orders, memorandums and proclamations on his first day back in the White ...
The failed civil service system puts most of our government in the hands of an unaccountable, left-liberal monoculture. Time ...