In his 2023 Netflix comedy special, Selective Outrage, Chris Rock identified one of the core contradictions of the ...

Donald Trump hasn’t filled his Cabinet yet, but evidence suggests he’s looking for two main attributes in his picks: loyalty to him and a loathing for what he calls the “deep state.” On Washington ...

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Learning where famous artists sleep and what they eat is like finally glimpsing the unknowable. This is an edition of The ...

The sheer quantity of individually unqualified selections might perversely make blocking any of them harder.

But the government needs reform, not demolition. A lthough the plight of America’s 2.2 million federal bureaucrats seldom ...

With his Cabinet picks, Donald Trump is causing a civil-service exodus that may hobble federal infrastructure for generations ...

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