Donald Trump’s plan to make thousands of federal employees more like at-will political appointees poses a particular risk to the prime duty of government — national security. That was the message from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Federal civil servants work for a nonpartisan agency, not a specific administration. Kevin Carter/Getty Images For many Americans, ...

While at his work in a local government office on July 10, Sun — a discipline-inspection officer in Suining, a city in southwestern China’s Sichuan province — was struck by a notice making the rounds.

A new study reveals that civil servants, like citizens, do not uniformly recognize and oppose political attacks on liberal democracy. How they view such attacks and respond depends heavily on their ...