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Crossfire Hurricane: Where the Guilty Go Free, The good news is that, thanks to the Durham Report, we now know it’s true. The bad news is that, today, there is no clear way that can be reversed.

“The sense that public employees have stuff that’s better” than that of private-sector workers persists, says one expert.

In 2021 President Biden nominated Martha Williams to run the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Several powerful environmental industry groups objected and several lobbied intensely against Senate confirmation. This is

Mark Twain was rarely impressed by politicians. He once wrote “there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” He once even said that the popular Theodore Roosevelt was “the most formidable disaster that has befallen the country since the Civil War.”

Americans should work together to forge an alternative to the administrative state so that we preserve our constitutional principles for future generations.

Garfield’s assassin, Charles Guiteau, was an unknown and insignificant supporter of Garfield’s during the 1880 presidential campaign with the delusional notion that his unknown and insignificant suppo...

(Archived document, may contain errors) 32 August 14, 1978 CIVIL SER VICE REFORM AND GOVERNMENT REORGANIZA TION STATUS

Of the four presidential assassinations in American history, James A. Garfield’s may well carry the most significance for people today. In office only four months before being shot in a Washington train station, Garfield clung to life for an additional two months, earning him the dubious distinction of being the slain American president with the shortest tenure in office and the longest period in agony. Garfield’s assassin, Charles Guiteau, was an unknown and insignificant supporter of Garfi...

There are no new ideas on our side about ensuring the political appointees are actually accountable to the chief executive they report to.

At the very pinnacle of the modern Progressive program to make government competent stands the ideal of a professionalized, career civil service. Since the turn of the 20th century, Progressives have sought a system that could effectively select, train, reward, and guard from partisan influence the neutral scientific experts they believe are required to staff the national government and run the administrative state. The U.S. merit system, initiated by the Pendleton Act of 1883