By choosing an unqualified far-right appointee to lead a federal agency tasked with protecting government integrity, Trump is showing just how far his efforts to remake the civil service will go.

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“When you watch a military parade, you have to wonder when and where the lethal arms will be deployed, in whose name and for what cause.”

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Condé Nast’s editors shone brightest in its premillennial heyday, but the media company’s opaque proprietor, S. I. Newhouse Jr., made his most consequential discovery in Donald Trump.

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