Rachel Maddow mocked Donald Trump for thinking he has a “big Trump mandate” for latest threat Trump called for a U.S.-led ...

In his first two weeks in office, President Donald Trump has taken a sledgehammer to the foundations of our democratic system, tearing apart our apolitical and merit-based career civil service. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

JPMorgan Chase has adjusted its approach but remains committed to DEI, aligning it with business success. Disney and NBC ...

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

President Donald Trump's executive order dismantles DEI programs on a federal level, but efforts continue from Montgomery to ...

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, ...

In the 1800s, the main job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty to the newly-elected president, who would fill the government bureaucracy with his supporters. But after a rejected ...

He says that under that "spoils system," the main job requirement for most federal employees was … loyalty. It was a system inaugurated by Democratic President Andrew Jackson. "When he came in ...