We will not know the extent or the success of President Donald Trump’s purge of the federal bureaucracy for some time. There ...

We know this because Trump has always said that he believes "to the victor belongs the spoils" and by that, he apparently ...

The U.S. is witnessing in these last couple of weeks with the firings of civil servants is an attempt to return to the old ...

and there have been comparisons to the spoils system put in place by his presidential hero, Andrew Jackson. It’s an imperfect comparison, as I learned from Daniel Feller, a professor emeritus of ...