President Donald Trump invited the Dodgers to the White House. Many of their fans feared that the team, by accepting, would humiliate themselves and betray the team’s large Latino, Asian and African-American fan base. Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter, along with co-owner Magic Johnson, have proposed a solution. Trump has promised that if he can keep the championship trophy, the Commissioner’s Trophy, he will end all seizures and deportations of immigrants.   read more

Merrill Lynch quietly paid out bonuses of at least $1 million each to 696 top executives while the investment house was suffering terminal losses last year, an investigation by the New York state Attorney General's office revealed.   This was pa...   read more

Sitting in front of computer screens in a trailer truck in the Nevada desert, American soldiers pilot Predator unmanned aircrafts over the rooftops of targets in Afghanistan. As they watch live images of their target from the aircraft on their scr...   read more

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was created in 1935 to strengthen the rights of employees to bargain collectively. Its mission shifted dramatically in favor of employers during the presidency of Ronald Reagan and again during the preside...   read more

Many advocates of open government have urged the Obama administration to release documents that the Bush administration refused to reveal. So far, President Obama has sent mixed messages about his intentions. On the one hand, he has signed executi...   read more

Now that the House of Representatives and the Senate have passed their own version of stimulus bills, their leaders will meet to iron out differences in the two bills. The Senate bill includes $117.6 billion more in tax cuts for individuals and fa...   read more

A recent Pew Research study shows that, unlike older generations, Americans aged 18-29 are just as likely to get their news from the Internet as from television. In general, 70% of Americans consider television a major news source and 40% cite the...   read more

As the governments of the United States and Iran inch closer to direct talks, an unusual bump in the road may have been hit. In the middle of the crisis surrounding the holding of American hostages, the Carter administration broke diplomatic relat...   read more

The Obama administration surprised federal appeals judges in San Francisco by arguing that a lawsuit by one current and four former detainees should be dismissed because it would reveal state secrets. The case involves Guantánamo prisoner Binyam M...   read more

According to recent Congressional filings, Pentagon contractors, their lobbyists and lobbying groups spent more than $340,000 in 2008 on parties and other events to honor Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates. Among those paying for events honoring Ga...   read more

There has been so much discussion of what the Senate is cutting from the House version of the economic stimulus plan that it is easy to overlook the fact that the Senate version also adds new expenditures. Joe Cirincione, president of the Ploughsh...   read more

Monday, Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont proposed the creation of a “truth and reconciliation commission” to investigate Bush administration policies such as its use of waterboarding and warrantless wire-tapping and the improper firing ...   read more

Mark Nicholas of PoliticalBase.com compared the transcripts of President Obama’s first presidential press conference on Monday with the first one that former President George W. Bush conducted back on February 22, 2001.   Nicholas copied the tra...   read more

The Army Corps of Engineers has awarded a $35 million contract to KBR for work at Camp Adder in south-central Iraq despite the fact that KBR is under criminal investigation in the death by electrocution of at least two American soldiers. The work ...   read more

As members of Congress continue to wrangle about what to cut from the soon-to-be-enacted stimulus bill, some details have emerged as to what has already been eliminated. Among the expenditures considered not stimulating enough to be funded: $16 b...   read more

Each year American taxpayers spend more than $100 million for reports written by the 700-strong staff of the Congressional Research Service (CRS), which provides reports on topics requested by members of Congress. These reports are not secret, but...   read more

On October 20, 2008, then-Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson, in explaining how the bailout of banks and others would work, told Americans that “This is an investment, not an expenditure, and there is no reason to expect this program will cos...   read more