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

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Donald Trump has been sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, completing perhaps the most remarkable political comeback in American history. The Republican, the first convicted felon ...

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

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Tariff legislation has always been a fraught issue, requiring considerable effort by the legislative branch to debate and iron out competing interests. Those battles have been memorialized in American ...

Is Donald J. Trump cool? And, relatedly, can he be considered, at last, a full-fledged, fully accepted, member of the ...

HONG KONG — China is sending Vice President Han Zheng to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, Chinese state media reported Friday, the first time a senior Chinese leader ...

In the 1800s, the main job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty to the newly-elected president. But after a ...

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