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  • Donald Trump Has a Mental Health Problem and It Has a Name

    Tuesday, September 09, 2025
    Donald Trump has a mental health condition known as narcissistic personality disorder. Here are some of the symptoms of narcissistic personality disorder. React with rage or contempt and try to belittle other people to make themselves appear superior. Have an unreasonably high sense of self-importance and require constant, excessive admiration. Make achievements and talents seem bigger than they are. Behave in an arrogant way, brag a lot and come across as conceited.   read more
  • Suicide and “Dog Poop Girl” Lead to Clash Between Google and South Korean Government

    Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    Cyber-bullying that led to the suicide of an actress and the fleeing of “dog poop girl” from her hometown provided impetus for a new Cyber Defamation Law in South Korea requiring that the real name of a user be published with any of the user’s upl...   read more
  • Ocean Power: Worth the Investment

    Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    As the United States searches for sources of domestically produced energy, interest has developed in the possibility of using the oceans to create power. Although the field is in its infancy, the long-term prospects are intriguing.   Earlier thi...   read more
  • Susan Boyle and a Lesson from Jane Austen: Carol Platt Liebau

    Tuesday, April 21, 2009
    Susan Boyle became the talk of the Internet on both sides of the Atlantic following her surprising appearance on “Britain’s Got Talent,” when she stepped on stage with her frumpy appearance and middle-aged spread and wowed audience and judges alik...   read more
  • CIA Headquarters Overruled Interrogators to Begin Using Torture

    Monday, April 20, 2009
    CIA interrogators believed they had already extracted everything useful from detainee Abu Zubaydah, a top al Qaeda official, when agency leaders in Washington, DC, ordered the use of harsher techniques in August 2002. Zubaydah, whom the CIA believ...   read more
  • Abruzzo Earthquake Uncovered Long-Lost Fresco of Madonna and Child

    Monday, April 20, 2009
    The destructive earthquake that struck Italy two weeks ago has produced one small, but important piece of good news for art conservationists and residents of the village of Rocca di Cambio. Like many of the buildings in the small mountainous town,...   read more
  • Drug Arrests: Whites Up; Blacks Down

    Monday, April 20, 2009
    According to a recent study conducted by the Washington D.C.-based Sentencing Project, a demographic shift is taking place with regards to those sentenced for drug offenses. Between 1999 to 2005 there was a 22% decrease in the number of black drug...   read more
  • California River System Tops List of America’s Most Endangered Rivers

    Monday, April 20, 2009
    The conservation organization American Rivers has released its 2009 report on America’s Most Endangered Rivers. At the top of the list sits the Sacramento- San Joaquin River System in California, which supplies drinking water  to almost 25 million...   read more
  • Robot Wars Good for Soldiers, Bad for Civilians

    Monday, April 20, 2009
    The growing use of robots by the U.S. military to reduce battlefield casualties is coming at the expense of civilians, and it could have ramifications as well for the ability of the government to sell future wars to the American people. In 2008, t...   read more
  • Roxana Saberi Update: 8 Years in Prison

    Monday, April 20, 2009
    Roxana Saberi, an Iranian-American accused of spying on behalf of the United States, was sentenced to eight years in prison over the weekend by a secret tribunal in Iran. Saberi’s sentence was the most severe of those handed down by Iran’s judicia...   read more
  • California Unemployment Worst Since Before Pearl Harbor

    Monday, April 20, 2009
    The last time Californians were enduring a worst spate of unemployment than now was January 1941, according to the latest figures released by the state Employment Development Department. The jobless rate for March hit 11.2% in California, only fiv...   read more
  • CIA Uses College Marketing Classes to Create Recruiting Campaigns

    Monday, April 20, 2009
    In an unusual appeal for help, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has begun tapping into university and college marketing programs in an effort to revamp its image and expand recruitment. The Bush Administration mandated the National Clandestin...   read more
  • EPA Moves Closer to Regulating Greenhouse Gases

    Sunday, April 19, 2009
    The ball is now in Congress’ court following a decision on Friday by the Environmental Protection Agency to declare carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions a danger to the public’s health. President Barack Obama would prefer that Congres...   read more
  • Should CIA “Black Sites” be Preserved as Evidence?

    Sunday, April 19, 2009
    Leon Panetta, director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has been asked by lawyers of one Guantánamo Bay detainee not to dismantle the secret prisons used to interrogate suspected terrorists. The counsel for Abd al-Rahim Hussain Mohammed al-Nash...   read more
  • African First Ladies Do Hollywood

    Sunday, April 19, 2009
    On Monday, the first ladies of fifteen African nations will gather in Beverly Hills for The African First Ladies Summit and Gala— a two-day meeting (April 20-21) that will focus on combating HIV/AIDs and will also address women’s issues. They will...   read more
  • 10 Most Challenged Books at Schools and Libraries

    Sunday, April 19, 2009
    Each year, the American Library Association (ALA) releases a list of the top 10 books libraries or schools have been asked to ban. According to ALA’s Office for Intellectual Freedom, 513 complaints were filed in 2008 from individuals or groups cla...   read more
  • Dozens of Memos Still Secret

    Sunday, April 19, 2009
    Although they shed new light on the secret authorizations of the Bush administration, the Justice Department memos released last Friday are, to a certain extent, just the tip of the iceberg. According to an assessment by ProPublica, there remain a...   read more
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