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February 19, 2025
Timothy Noah
Trump’s Incompetence Is Botching His Own Deregulation Spree
Turns out that when you paralyze government agencies, it only makes it harder to undo Biden-era regulations.
February 13, 2025
Grace Segers
Federal Workers’ Unions Are Waging the Fight of Their Lives
With the White House and Elon Musk’s DOGE working to dismantle the government, civil service employees are finding ways to push back.
February 13, 2025
Bryce Covert
If Democrats Don’t Champion the Civil Service, Who Will?
With the federal workforce facing an onslaught by Trump and Elon Musk, its employees—and the populace it so dutifully protects—desperately need defenders.
February 7, 2025
Simon Lazarus
There May Be Enough Supreme Court Votes to Save the Government
Trump’s executive order stripping federal workers of legal protections is the most dangerous of his unlawful power grabs. But there is a way to win them back.
February 3, 2025
Michael Tomasky
Will Elon Musk Do to the Federal Government What He Did to Twitter?
An unchecked, unelected oligarch is yanking wires out of the machinery that powers American life—and there’s no telling how many people will get hurt.
January 29, 2025
Malcolm Ferguson
Trump’s “Buyout” Offer for Federal Workers Is Already Backfiring
Donald Trump’s ultimatum to federal workers seems to be having the opposite effect.
January 1, 2025
Jason Linkins
Enshittification Comes to Washington
Our tech overlords have ruined the online platforms that Americans depend on. Now, as Donald Trump returns to the White House with Elon Musk in tow, expect the same to happen to our government.
October 29, 2024
Matt Ford
The Madison Square Garden Rally Is a Vision of a Second Trump Term
There’s no clearer picture of a presidency than the people with whom a would-be president chooses to associate.
September 28, 2024
Jason Linkins
Put a Human Face on the Misery That Trump Wreaks
Democrats spent part of their week identifying the real people who’d be harmed by Project 2025. They should follow these instincts from now till November.
September 24, 2024
Timothy Noah
The Washington Post
Defends
the Trump-Imperiled Civil Service
The paper may not have a great history of covering the federal workforce, but their timely series on the dedicated professionals threatened by the former president is a boon to democracy.
September 7, 2024
Jason Linkins
Trump’s Diabolical Plan for the Federal Workforce
Trump’s reelection would mean a radical transformation of the civil service. Democrats need to raise the alarm.
August 30, 2023
James Goodwin
The Quiet Resurgence of the Administrative State
The Biden administration has taken some bold steps to bolster the civil service after Trump’s attempt to transform it into an instrument of authoritarianism.
September 23, 2022
Jason Linkins
The Republican Plot to Weaponize the Government Against Political Enemies
Trump’s “Schedule F” plan to eliminate workplace protections for the civil service was averted in 2020. But the GOP still dreams of the purge.
July 25, 2022
Timothy Noah
The Next GOP President Will Replace Civil Servants With Political Hacks, Wreaking Havoc on the Government
Trump fumbled it in 2020. The Republicans will try again next time they win the White House.
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