Since the Phillies first started as a professional baseball team in 1883, we have seen 25 different men hold the office of ...

The act of violence almost 150 years ago effectively gave birth to the civil service, that class of nonpartisan experts who ...

Supported by 21 Republican AGs, the amicus brief defends President Trump’s “Fork Directive” and critiques the federal workers ...

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

Trump's plan violates statutes, undoes a century of civil service reform, and would derail government services.

Ecuadorian voters are preparing to cast their ballots for a new president for the second time in 18 months amid an unprecedented security crisis in the country. Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa ...

Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte has been impeached by the House of Representatives after more than the required number of legislators signed a petition to remove her from office. The House’s ...

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

Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a professional, merit-based civil service since shortly after the Civil War.