Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more

Aaron S. Williams, the eighteenth Director of the Peace Corps and only the fourth to have served as a Peace Corps Volunteer, was sworn in on August 25, 2009. Williams takes over an agency in considerable flux. On the one hand, Williams’ predecesso...   read more

Alexa E. Posny, chosen by President Barack Obama to run the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, previously served in a similar capacity for the Bush administration, after holding various education adm...   read more

Author Les Leopold has given up on government regulation of big banks. It no longer makes sense for “$100,000 a year civil servants” to try to keep watch over “$100 million dollar a year bankers” who can afford an “army of financial engineers to o...   read more

If the world consumed resources and produced waste at the same rate the United States does, human civilization would need five Earths to keep up. This conclusion was reached by the international think tank Global Footprint Network, whose latest st...   read more

Preserving cultural heritage is the aim of the World Monuments Fund (WMF), a nonprofit organization that each year issues a “watch list” of locations around the world that it says deserve preservation. WMF’s 2010 Watch list includes 93 cultural he...   read more

Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, 48, finds himself in the same limbo as a dozen other Guantánamo detainees who have been ordered released by federal courts, only to remain behinds bars in Cuba. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ruled last Friday that t...   read more

For several years, William Bowden of Cary, North Carolina, had been in a dispute with the town government over damage done to his property by water runoff from a road project. In July 2009, he grew fed up with the lack of response from local offic...   read more

When it comes to playing the stock market, members of Congress know how to pick ‘em. Over the past three decades lawmakers have increasingly invested in stocks and bonds with little regard for potential conflicts of interest that may arise from pa...   read more

At least eighteen journalists were among those massacred on Monday in the Philippines at the hands of armed men loyal to a local mayor and police chief. The reporters were traveling with a group of supporters of Esmael Mangudadatu, a politician se...   read more

Seven years and $3 billion later, the Department of Homeland Security is still relying on technology at U.S. ports and border crossings that can’t distinguish bananas from a nuclear bomb being smuggled into the country. By now, federal officials w...   read more

All Erika Schmidt tried to do, she says, was help disadvantaged people get back on their feet. That would have been fine had she not helped the less fortunate by stealing money from the rich, earning her the moniker the Robin Hood of Germany.   ...   read more

Soldiers returning home from war with disabilities are entitled to special access to government contracts if they want to start their own business after leaving the military. But getting these contracts can be difficult if the government bungles t...   read more

It perhaps won’t come as a shock to learn that the violence in many of today’s most popular video games would be considered a violation of international humanitarian law, were the events depicted real. Two Swiss human rights organizations, Trial a...   read more

The government giveth, and the government taketh away. That’s what attorney H. Candace Gorman found out while representing Guantánamo detainee Abdul Hamid al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan baker married to an Afghan woman who was captured in Afghanistan short...   read more

Up until five years ago banks were limited to how much debt they could carry versus the amount of cash they had on hand. But after the Securities and Exchange Commission, led by Bush appointee and former Republican Congressman Christopher Cox, did...   read more

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has a lot of angry employees on his hands. The head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture began reorganizing staff in October, which included downgrading the positions of chief information officer and chief financ...   read more