The hosts of the Throughline podcast bring us the story of how a presidential assassination gave rise to the modern federal civil service. The federal government is the largest employer in the U.S., ...

Earlier this year President Trump dealt another blow to the civil service with an executive order establishing a new “Schedule G” classification expanding the number of political appointments in ...

Federal employees and experts in the good government and academic community reacted in shock last month after President Trump signed an executive order undoing more than a century of federal civil ...

The new regulation — which will be published in the Federal Register for public inspection on Thursday — seeks to provide 2.2 million federal employees with defined protections that would make it ...