We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...

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

Now, it's important to distinguish his belief that "to the victor belongs the spoils" in the imperialist context from a ...

Trump wants the federal government to be more immediately responsive to his political aims, and there have been comparisons to the spoils system put in place by his presidential hero, Andrew Jackson.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and Trump's nominee to be director of ...

Not that he is likely aware of that. But he has certainly created a spoils system in the U.S. federal government for the first time in many moons. Let's not pretend that any of this is about the ...