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 ...

Shuttered the U.S. Agency for International Development, freezing foreign aid, placing the agency’s 10,000 employees ...

To Marcy, the phrase meant that the winning side in an election has the right to choose people to fill non-elected political ...

A lot of Trump’s rhetoric subscribes to a popular “meritocracy myth” that if everyone simply works harder, they will all have ...

It’s too difficult to hire and fire federal workers. A grand bargain is possible, but that’s not what Trump seeks.

When Donald Trump was first elected in 2016, he was the only president in recent history who had no political or military experience before entering the White House. Now, during his second term, he ...

Trump’s executive order stripping federal workers of legal protections is the most dangerous of his unlawful power grabs. But ...