Checks and balances are supposed to ward off a spoils system. Can the guardrails hold?

Trump's plan violates statutes, undoes a century of civil service reform, and would derail government services.

Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...

Now, in Season 2, Episode 4, “Woe’s Hollow,” the show’s introduced us to the Glasgow Block, a function that’s been secretly used on a member of the core MDR four since the sophomore season premiere.

The Trump administration wants to get rid of federal workers, including in Greater Cleveland, but many workers have civil service protection.

A 19th-century presidential assassination was a signature event in helping the U.S. establish a meritocratic system for ...

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

Trump’s blitz against the independence of the civil service is undermining a core pillar of American democracy. President Donald Trump showed his admiration for Andrew Jackson when, eight years ago, ...

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 disgruntled ...

But after a rejected office-seeker shot President James Garfield, reformers won long-sought-after changes: workers hired for their expertise, not their fealty. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with ...

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 ...