The civil service was once politicized. Then a president was assassinated.
Reformers in the Republican Party, which dominated national politics in the 1860s and 1870s, had been calling for a ...
Trump’s war on the civil service
America should celebrate federal workers. They make sure your child can go to a clean national park, you can take a safe ...
A new biography of abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner
Stephen Puleo’s biography offers a fresh glimpse into the Radical Republicans’ struggle against slavery and shines a light on ...
Civil Servants Are Not America’s Enemies
Donald Trump is waging war on the civil service in the name of efficiency. But Washington created the modern civil service to ...
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Trump Didn’t Break the Republican Party. He Harnessed It.
During his first term, despite endless commentary about his civil war with the G.O.P., Mr. Trump usually operated as a party ...
Democracy Reborn: The Fourteenth Amendment and the Fight for Equal Rights in Post-Civil War America, by Garrett Epps
The Fourteenth Amendment was the product of a democratic revolutionary change that sought to put the Constitution on a ...
Alabama lawmakers want Ten Commandments in schools: Will Roy Moore-era legal battle be reignited?
The move echoes a decades-old fight over religion in government, reigniting memories of Moore’s defiant stand in the early ...
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Joe Rogan's apolitical stance after endorsing Donald Trump and attending inauguration doesn't sit well with fans: "This ignores the cold civil war"
Joe Rogan recently clarified his political stance, distancing himself from both major U.S. political parties. Despite ...
Sen. Mark Kelly votes against advancing Tulsi Gabbard to lead nation's spies
Sen. Mark Kelly, among other Democrats, voted against Gabbard, citing concerns about her judgment and past stances aligning ...
Letters: Walz was critical of Trump funding reviews. We could have used more of our own
Governor Walz was critical of President Trump’s attempt to do funding reviews on federal grants, loans and financial ...
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The Republican war on the Constitution
It is the party of Lincoln no more ... the GOP’s assaults on the nation’s charter have multiplied. The pre–Civil War doctrine of nullification has been revived in the form of this week ...