Whether it sees Elon Musk’s DOGE as a success or a failure, Whitehall should see it as a warning. Because institutions which ...

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

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

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

Government agencies are absorbing thousands of redundancies and suspending diversity initiatives, while two groups of FBI ...

An apolitical bureaucracy run by public servants who respect the law is one of the greatest achievements a society can attain ...

President Donald Trump’s executive order that threatens the job security of federal workers drew a pair of lawsuits from ...

America should celebrate federal workers. They make sure your child can go to a clean national park, you can take a safe ...

Although a lot can be said about the civil service obsession of the people in general, it is one of the guaranteed pathways ...

Marj Halperin is an award-winning journalist and former Democratic analyst for WGN-TV, currently heard on WGN radio’s Mincing ...

The federal civil service, which has many virtues, is also a bit of a mess. This is not only my view but that of almost every former Democratic administration official ...

President Donald Trump and his administration’s attempts to remove America’s civil service corps as part of a broader effort to depopulate the federal government is genuinely horrifying ...