There are certain positions within the global spoils system where the United States should encourage more participation, but there are others where the United States needs to draw red lines. These ...

“President Trump’s new executive order would overturn a 150-year-old precedent that created an expert non-partisan civil service and return us to the ‘spoils system’ of political ...

Spoils system stays strong in Westchester. ... for special operations," a fancy title that might mislead you into thinking that he is a highly trained agent drawing a bead on al-Qaida or ISIS.

Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in prominent scholarly journals with titles like Thinking the Unthinkable ...

As 2020 White House and 2024 Heritage questionnaires show, Team Trump’s personnel plans wouldn’t just abolish the civil-service system. They would reward members of the president’s cult of ...

How is what Trump’s doing different than the spoils system? WOLF: I’m interested in the differences, because I do think that Trump sees himself as this kind of Jacksonian figure, to the extent ...

Regarding spoils, I can imagine President Trump issuing executive orders telling cancer researchers seeking grants to show they are making America great again, “suggesting” hiring conservative ...