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SOURCE: Defense One
10/22/2020
‘Stunning’ Executive Order Enables Politicized Civil Service
Trump's executive order would make political loyalty, rather than expertise, experience or skill, the main criteria for retention in a new category of Federal jobs, potentially destabilizing the Federal civil service.
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SOURCE: The Atlantic
1/8/19
Lincoln's Legacy and the Government Shutdown: The Suicide of a Great Democracy
by George Packer
A shutdown looks like the beginning of the end that Lincoln always knew was possible.
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Why is Our Government Prosecuting Whistleblowers?
by William J. Astore
Image via Shutterstock.You know the saying: If you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to hide. I hear it from my students: I've nothing to hide, so let Big Brother scrutinize my emails, my phone calls, my purchases, my activities online, and so on. Anything to keep us safe from the big, bad terrorists.
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