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 ...

"To the victor belong the spoils." For decades in the 1800s, that phrase was more than a slogan; it was the official hiring policy of the U.S. government. "You win the election, you're entitled to put ...

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 ...