The future of public service work is unclear. Just in the last few years, the COVID-19 pandemic has upended in-office work, the way people meet and communicate. But, the merit system and its ...

Back in the 1990s while working for the Clinton administration’s U.S. Office of Personnel Management, I wrote articles in prominent scholarly journals with titles like “Thinking the Unthinkable in ...

Throughout most of the 19th century, the lion’s share of appointments to federal jobs was rewarded to the faithful supporters of the winning candidate of the presidential elections. During that era, ...

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It first appeared at The Conversation. If elected to serve a second term, Donald Trump says he supports a plan that would ...