In the 1800s, the main job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty to the newly-elected president, who would fill ...

He says that under that "spoils system," the main job requirement for most federal employees was … loyalty. It was a system inaugurated by Democratic President Andrew Jackson. "When he came in ...

Guiteau had another motive: He imagined that by killing Garfield he would heal a split in the Republican Party over the spoils system — the idea that the political party that wins an election ...

Research reveals that politically connected companies were significantly more likely to receive valuable exemptions from the tariffs imposed on U.S. imports from China during the Trump administration.

And it comes as Meta and Amazon are also retreating from diversity programmes. In Trump’s directive, DEI is said to undermine ...

Trump’s blitz against the independence of the civil service is undermining a core pillar of American democracy. President Donald Trump showed his admiration for Andrew Jackson when, eight years ago, ...

The White House also published a “ fact sheet ” on the EO, stating the Trump Administration’s position that the EO will expand “individual opportunity by terminating radical DEI preferencing in ...

A 19th-century presidential assassination was a signature event in helping the U.S. establish a meritocratic system for ...

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