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

With no parents around and two siblings to support, 17-year-old high school student Diane Tran of Houston, Texas, has had to work two jobs while taking college prep classes. For all her work and dedication Tran recently found herself spending a ni...   read more

“We don’t need the tanks,” was the message delivered to Congress in March by Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno and Army Secretary John McHugh, who were criticizing calls to force the Army to spend more than it proposed on the M1A2, the w...   read more

While state governments continue to cut funding for community colleges, the federal government has helped for-profit universities grow and prosper.   In recent years, federally guaranteed student loans to students attending private “proprietary ...   read more

Despite official policies supposedly excluding women in the military from combat, more than “800 women have been wounded and over 130 women have died” in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in the Distri...   read more

Fifty million Americans lack health insurance, a substantial portion of the U.S. population. But an even larger number of Americans have no dental insurance—130 million.   For many the problem stems from the fact that many employers don’t pay fo...   read more

Upon the retirement of Melvin W. Russell, who served as acting director of the Defense Media Activity (DMA) from October 2009 until April 30, 2012, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Bryan G. Whitman was appointed a...   read more

Despite testimony from the Pentagon’s top leaders that energy diversification is a key component of American military and security strategy, the Senate Armed Services Committee  on May 24 voted 13-12 to prohibit the U.S. military from buying biofu...   read more

Four years after crashing the global economy as a result of their irresponsible gambling with other people’s money, U.S. banks posted record profits for the first quarter of 2012, according to a report released by the Federal Deposit Insurance Cor...   read more

Two thousand, six hundred sixty-two days: That is how long the United States held innocent man Lakhdar Boumediene at the prison camp for “terrorists” at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, from January 20, 2002, to May 14, 2009. Although by early 2004 one of hi...   read more

The new ambassador to the United States from Spain is a career diplomat who has previously served in the U.S. and whose career has been tied to the political fortunes of Spain’s right-of-center political party, the People’s Party (PP), which won S...   read more

The key U.S. Asian ally of South Korea has named a new ambassador to the United States who has served before in the U.S. Born March 29, 1948, Choi Young-jin earned a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations at Yonsei University in Seo...   read more

Seven years after it was hired to provide food to troops in Afghanistan, a Swiss company has been accused of overcharging the Department of Defense about three-quarters of a billion dollars.   Supreme Foodservice AG of Switzerland has been paid ...   read more

It is one of the most dangerous jobs in America, with a death rate 10 times that of construction work: tower workers. Nearly 100 of these climbers have died on the job since 2003, more than half of them working on cell phone towers and the rest on...   read more

Prescription drug abuse and overdoses are overwhelming state officials in Tennessee.   Nearly 18 million prescriptions for controlled substances such as OxyContin and hydrocodone (the primary ingredient of Vicodin) were dispensed in the state du...   read more

A career diplomat who has specialized in Asian affairs, including U.S.-Taiwan relations, will be the next director of the American Institute in Taiwan (AIT), and as such the de facto ambassador to Taipei. Christopher J. Marut, who served previousl...   read more

Chaiyong Satjipanon became Thailand’s ambassador to the United States on April 18, 2012.   Born on September 14, 1953, Chaiyong was educated in Thailand and the U.S. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree (with honors) in political science and ...   read more