President Donald Trump signed an executive order this month that establishes a new category of federal employment. It will ...

Civil-service reform and telework, in readers' eyes.

President Trump formally moved to implement his plan to make it easier to fire federal workers in policy roles, signing an executive order moving them into a new class that critics say will be akin to ...

In 1895, science fiction writer H.G. Wells introduced the world to the concept of time travel. Pick a time, he told his dinner guests in The Time Machine, and manipulate a lever in his machine: “this ...

The Trump administration’s campaign to strip civil service protections from thousands of federal workers appears strategically designed to withstand early legal challenges—and set the stage for a ...

Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States and arguably the most dedicated to reforming the operations of the government, died on Dec. 29 at his home in Plains, Georgia. He was 100. Carter ...