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

A Bush-era program designed to help poor people improve their lives through healthy marriages wound up consuming hundreds of millions of dollars and producing few results.   Announced in 2004, the Healthy Marriage Initiative was launched two y...   read more

Demonstrators in Bahrain have a new villain in their protracted struggle to gain democratic freedoms: the United States.   Instead of exclusively blaming the dictatorial regime of King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa, protestors have called upon Wash...   read more

The devastating impact of off-shoring American jobs to other countries is no more apparent than in the apparel manufacturing industry. From 1990 to 2011, 80% of the jobs in this industry disappeared in the U.S., downsizing from 902,800 to 151,80...   read more

Regardless of how the U.S. Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, the Obama administration’s federal healthcare reform law, most Americans probably assume the lower courts have decided against the controversial ...   read more

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision in the case of Arizona v. United States, which struck down three key provisions in Arizona’s immigration enforcement statute known as S.B. 1070 for conflicting with federal immigration law and policy, provoked ...   read more

A towering cross on federal property atop Mount Soledad in San Diego may have to come down after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to let stand without comment an appeals court ruling that the memorial illegally conveys a religious message. But it ...   read more

The water Americans drink is threatened from below. For the past half-century or so, U.S. corporations have injected more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic liquid waste deep into the earth, believing that multiple layers of rock would prevent th...   read more

In yet another ominous sign that the Great Recession is threatening the future, a new report from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that in 2010 public school system spending declined by 0.4 percent, a small decrease to be sure, but this marks the firs...   read more

Although during his 2005 confirmation hearing Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts tried to reassure the Senate that he would be unbiased because “Judges are like umpires,” he and his fellow Republican justices seem to have a strike zone tha...   read more

Two unnamed women are suing Blue Cross and St. Joseph’s Medical Center in Westchester County in New York state over the Catholic hospital’s refusal to grant benefits to same-sex couples. One of the women is an employee of the hospital.   The l...   read more

On October 7, 2012, hundreds of conservative political activists will intentionally violate federal law by engaging in illegal electioneering despite the presence of a law on the books since 1954 that forbids them to do so. They believe, apparen...   read more

On at least two occasions, the Apple Store in Alpharetta, Georgia, refused to sell iPads and other products to Iranian-Americans, citing U.S. government policy.   In both cases, the shoppers were speaking Farsi, which alarmed sales representativ...   read more

San Francisco’s 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals called the lower-court ruling “practically unworkable,” but on a 7-2 vote, U.S. Supreme Court justices upheld the decision that closed union shops, like those in California government, must give wo...   read more

C’est jeudi en fin d’après-midi que devait être annoncé le gouvernement Ayrault II. Et le moins que l’on puisse dire, c’est que l’attente a été (très) longue. 18 heures : rien. 19 heures : rien. 20 heures : toujours rien. Ce ne sera finalement qu’...   read more

Four men sued the federal government in 2011 claiming they were unfairly terminated from their government positions for not registering for the draft.   Their case was founded on the argument that the Selective Service System was sexist since ...   read more

A United Nations Group of Experts has uncovered information revealing Rwanda’s support for a Congolese rebel leader who is wanted internationally for using child soldiers. But the UN report, completed earlier this month, has not been released be...   read more