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

If this is the age of budget cutbacks and government austerity, someone ought to tell the Pentagon and its weapons contractors, because they haven’t gotten the memo about shared sacrifice. According to a summary of the top federal contractors pr...   read more

A report released by Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) asserts that about $70 billion appropriated by Congress have gone unspent, becoming, as the report title states, “Money for Nothing.” Coburn’s office cites numerous examples of cases in which ...   read more

Airborne mercury from half way around the world has wound up in the Great Lakes in measurable quantities. But the largest contributor of this harmful substance to Lake Michigan and other bodies of water is nearby coal-burning power plants.   C...   read more

In the wake of the May 21st resignation of Gregory Jaczko as chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), President Obama moved quickly to nominate a replacement on May 24, tapping geologist and nuclear waste disposal expert Allison M. Macf...   read more

It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of AllGov France, the first expansion of AllGov outside the United States. Like allgov.com, allgov.fr is built on a foundation of hundreds of trustworthy, well-researched articles about a wide ...   read more

Fear, an emotion often only tenuously tethered to reality, arises from the belief that danger is near, whether it really is or not, and can be created and manipulated by those in power. Fear of terrorism is a case in point. Since the tragic atta...   read more

When state and local governments give tax breaks and other financial incentives to private corporations as a way to induce them to locate their facilities nearby, the intent is to create new jobs for local residents. Too often, however, companie...   read more

American high school students prefer marijuana to cigarettes, according to a report released June 8 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. CDC, an operating division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service...   read more

General Raymond T. Odierno has served as the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army since September 7, 2011. As such, he has been a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a council of senior uniformed officers in the Defense Department who advise the Sec...   read more

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are attempting to block the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from imposing a new rule that would reveal who is behind political advertisements.   The FCC approved a new regulation in Apri...   read more

Coming on the heels of its bitter defeat in Wisconsin, organized labor received more bad news this week with word of a serious divide between public and private unions in New York State, the nation’s most pro-collective bargaining state.   On ...   read more

All delivery driver Sergio Cervantes wanted from his employer, United Parcel Service (UPS), after witnessing a man executed by a street gang, was a transfer to another (safer) route far away. But UPS refused Cervantes’ request, he alleges, and n...   read more

The chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, Norton A. “Norty” Schwartz, is both the first Jewish-American to run that branch and the first who is not a former fighter or bomber pilot. Schwartz was nominated by President George W. Bush shortly afte...   read more

A shortage of beans from India is cutting into Halliburton’s profits from hydraulic fracturing, according to the company.   Among the ingredients that make up the fluids used in fracking wells is guar gum, which is derived from beans, most of wh...   read more

Even though the majority of the top firms on Wall Street did not perform well in 2011, their chief executives enjoyed a collective 20% raise.   As part of its annual ranking of top salaries, Bloomberg Markets found the compensation of CEOs of ...   read more

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has revived controversial tactics in its drone war against Islamic militants, targeting funerals and rescuers of those hit in previous airstrikes.   These are the same tactics that have been condemned when...   read more