Musk’s slashing of government jobs, programs and departments isn’t the first effort by a president’s appointee to streamline ...

William Howard Taft was the natural successor to Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he had a very warm working relationship (one journalist wrote that T.A.F.T. stood for “Take Advice From Theodore.”) He ...

Yet, in selecting Musk and Ramaswamy to undertake a review of the federal bureaucracy, Trump is actually taking after the far less remembered William Howard Taft. In fact, the key to the success o ...