The “spoils system” of the 19th century filled the government with party loyalists and increased corruption across the country, until a popular political movement created appetite for reform.

That, to me, is what should be the overall narrative for people. We had a system 140 years plus ago called the spoils system.

That, to me, is what should be the overall narrative for people. We had a system 140 years plus ago called the spoils system. It was the system of to the victor goes the spoils. Whoever was ...

Ah yes, those were the good old days when an American president could do what he wanted with the federal workforce. That was George Washington in the 1790s, who followed what the English colony ...

Opinion: In our state, as across the nation, we worked with Democrats and Republicans and understood that competent public servants are the backbone of effective government.

This so-called “spoils system” — a term dating back to Andrew Jackson’s administration — empowered the president’s allies, regardless of their qualifications. “The idea was that the ...

OPINION While President Trump’s efforts to force out tens of thousands of civilian federal workers and to dismantle entire ...

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is terminating a $505,000 STEM grant that was supposed to support an ‘Inclusive ...

The civil service systems at both the federal level and in Louisiana date back to the end of the 19th and first half of the 20th Centuries, as the nation moved away from the “spoils system ...