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

It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of AllGov France, the first expansion of AllGov outside the United States. Like allgov.com, allgov.fr is built on a foundation of hundreds of trustworthy, well-researched articles about a wide ...   read more

Fear, an emotion often only tenuously tethered to reality, arises from the belief that danger is near, whether it really is or not, and can be created and manipulated by those in power. Fear of terrorism is a case in point. Since the tragic atta...   read more

When state and local governments give tax breaks and other financial incentives to private corporations as a way to induce them to locate their facilities nearby, the intent is to create new jobs for local residents. Too often, however, companie...   read more

American high school students prefer marijuana to cigarettes, according to a report released June 8 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. CDC, an operating division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service...   read more

General Raymond T. Odierno has served as the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army since September 7, 2011. As such, he has been a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a council of senior uniformed officers in the Defense Department who advise the Sec...   read more

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are attempting to block the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from imposing a new rule that would reveal who is behind political advertisements.   The FCC approved a new regulation in Apri...   read more

Coming on the heels of its bitter defeat in Wisconsin, organized labor received more bad news this week with word of a serious divide between public and private unions in New York State, the nation’s most pro-collective bargaining state.   On ...   read more

All delivery driver Sergio Cervantes wanted from his employer, United Parcel Service (UPS), after witnessing a man executed by a street gang, was a transfer to another (safer) route far away. But UPS refused Cervantes’ request, he alleges, and n...   read more

The chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, Norton A. “Norty” Schwartz, is both the first Jewish-American to run that branch and the first who is not a former fighter or bomber pilot. Schwartz was nominated by President George W. Bush shortly afte...   read more

A shortage of beans from India is cutting into Halliburton’s profits from hydraulic fracturing, according to the company.   Among the ingredients that make up the fluids used in fracking wells is guar gum, which is derived from beans, most of wh...   read more

Even though the majority of the top firms on Wall Street did not perform well in 2011, their chief executives enjoyed a collective 20% raise.   As part of its annual ranking of top salaries, Bloomberg Markets found the compensation of CEOs of ...   read more

The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has revived controversial tactics in its drone war against Islamic militants, targeting funerals and rescuers of those hit in previous airstrikes.   These are the same tactics that have been condemned when...   read more

Twenty years since the end of the Cold War, the United States spends $31 billion a year on its nuclear arsenal. This costly commitment continues to this day largely because companies that make such weapons spend millions of dollars lobbying key ...   read more

The United States has reached a point whereby locking up offenders for longer and longer periods of time is no longer cost-effective or a factor in deterring crime, according to the Pew Center on the States.   Over the last 40 years, prison se...   read more

Being new to the workforce has not been a fruitful experience so far for the majority of recent high school graduates who skipped going to college.   Among those from the classes of 2009, 2010 and 2011 who received their diplomas, 54% are unem...   read more

Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives have approved legislation that would guarantee hunting and fishing rights on some federal lands, possibly even in National Parks.   HR 4089, sponsored by Representative Jeff Miller (R-Florida) w...   read more