Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. "To the victor belong the spoils." For decades in the 1800s, that phrase was more than a slogan; it was the official hiring policy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There will ...

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 in ...

Donald Trump is, for a second time, trying to revive the political spoils system, this time with a new Schedule F executive order in which he is attempting to reclassify tens of thousands of federal ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! University of Richmond history professor Eric Yellin talked about the spoils system that existed before the formation of the modern day civil service ...

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the ...

(CNN) — We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There will be lawsuits to fight some of his firings and delay or derail ...