Trump ordered that the term Homo sapiens be changed to Hetero sapiens. In history books and on websites, the airplane from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima will no longer be identified as the Enola Gay, but rather the Enola Straight. Trump also ordered billionaire Mark Cuban, who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, to change his name to Mark American. If he does not do so, he will be charged with terrorism.   read more

Banks may not be the only too-big-to-fail businesses the U.S. government is determined to help succeed. The presence of the Department of Defense’s top weapons buyer at a military industry investment conference has demonstrated the importance pl...   read more

In one of the largest settlements ever handed down in an environmental pollution case, a judge in Ecuador has ordered oil giant Chevron to pay more than $9 billion in damages and legal fees for polluting a stretch of the Amazon decades ago.   ...   read more

As Anthony Graves said himself, nothing has come easy in his effort to obtain justice.   After spending 18 years on Texas’s Death Row for a murder he did not commit, Graves was finally freed on October 27, 2010. But his attempt to receive compen...   read more

The names may have changed, but the policy is still the same at the U.S. Department of Justice, where officials under President Barack Obama are claiming the government can obtain telephone records without a warrant. The legal position reminds c...   read more

In the wake of public overthrows of two longtime Arab dictators, the United States has stepped up military assistance to the regime governing Yemen out of concern that al-Qaeda may seek to exploit the volatile situation in the strategically impo...   read more

Approved by Congress last spring, the Caregivers and Veterans Omnibus Health Services Act was supposed to represent a “major step forward in America’s commitment to families and caregivers who tend to our wounded warriors every day,” according t...   read more

In proposing to decentralize the management of national forests and endangered species, the Obama administration may undo protections that President Ronald Reagan approved 29 years ago.   A new rule developed by the U.S. Department of Agricult...   read more

It is virtually unheard of for a justice on the U.S. Supreme Court not to speak during oral arguments for an entire term, given the vocal nature of judges and the complexities of legal issues at hand. But Justice Clarence Thomas has managed a st...   read more

Thanks to what critics are calling the “Obama arms bazaar,” the Department of Defense has dramatically increased weapons sales to foreign governments as a means of creating new jobs or preventing others from disappearing.   From 1995 to 2005, ...   read more

For all the worry about being too big and too intrusive, the U.S. government has an invisibility issue with millions of Americans. It spends billions on programs to assist those who, it turns out, don’t see themselves as receiving government ass...   read more

Justice Clarence Thomas has been required since he joined U.S. Supreme Court in 1991 to disclose the income of his wife—something he failed to do until a liberal advocacy group blew the whistle on his inaction. Thomas has insisted the reporting ...   read more

When the number of Americans on food stamps goes up, the profits of JPMorgan Chase also rise.   The powerhouse national bank contracts with 26 state governments and the District of Columbia to produce debit cards for food stamp recipients, a s...   read more

Having handled diplomatic duties in countries around the world, Michael S. Owen received his first ambassadorship on the continent of Africa. Owen, a career member of the Foreign Service, took over as ambassador to Sierra Leone on August 16, 201...   read more

Stopping terrorists from unleashing attacks in the United States involves much more than just having good intelligence to uncover threats. In fact, it can be argued that the public and local police are more important in this fight.   A study p...   read more

The Obama administration’s effort to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with a federal crime is not looking good.   Federal investigators so far have not uncovered sufficient evidence to show Assange persuaded an Army private to leak gove...   read more

As part of their effort to slash huge sums from the federal budget, Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are proposing to cut $1.3 billion from community health centers, a program favored by key GOP leaders, including former Presiden...   read more