President Donald Trump invited the Dodgers to the White House. Many of their fans feared that the team, by accepting, would humiliate themselves and betray the team’s large Latino, Asian and African-American fan base. Dodgers controlling owner Mark Walter, along with co-owner Magic Johnson, have proposed a solution. Trump has promised that if he can keep the championship trophy, the Commissioner’s Trophy, he will end all seizures and deportations of immigrants.   read more

The Pentagon’s top spy agency, like the rest of the intelligence community, was roundly criticized for key intelligence failures in the run-up to the war in Iraq, including finding that Iraq was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction and had clos...   read more

Are the police using unmanned drones, like those used against terrorists in places like Pakistan and Yemen, to conduct surveillance of your community from the sky? Since 2006, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has issued about 700 to 750 “...   read more

Despite a stated mission “to satisfy curiosity and make a difference in people’s lives,” the science-oriented Discovery Channel decided not to satisfy the curiosity of viewers of its latest documentary series, Frozen Planet. The BBC series on life...   read more

There is a saying in Burma that one must be wary of five evils:  fire, water (storms and floods), thieves, mean people and…government. The military junta that has ruled Burma (which it renamed as “Myanmar”) since 1962, has been one of the most rep...   read more

If she could turn back time, Cher might have decided not to allow the sale of a “Key to the City,” presented to her in November 1990 by the lord mayor of Adelaide, Australia, a city of 1.2 million. As it is, the appearance of the key on the websit...   read more

Film industry executives lost their first major international court case involving piracy and copyright infringement, when Australia’s highest court unanimously ruled against them.   The Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT), rep...   read more

Newt Gingrich has no chance of catching Mitt Romney in the race for the Republican presidential nomination and his campaign is deeply in debt. But that hasn’t stopped the former House Speaker from carrying on his political travels, which are being...   read more

The West African nation of Ghana will soon have a new ambassador from the United States who has no experience in the region, but plenty with countries that, like Ghana, have large oil reserves. President Barack Obama on April 11, 2012, nominated c...   read more

The political crises of the Indian Ocean island nations of Sri Lanka, which is emerging from a 25-year long civil war that killed about 100,000 people, and Maldives, still reeling from a recent coup, will likely seem unhappily familiar to Presiden...   read more

Gauging from the partisan guests appearing on Sunday morning talk shows, it would seem the country has gone Republican—a political party with which less than 30% of Americans identify.   An eight-month study (June 2011 through February 2012) of ...   read more

President Barack Obama’s first-time homebuyers tax credit was supposed to help bolster the housing market and get the economy going again. It did have a positive impact, temporarily, during the recession, before things again went south for home pr...   read more

Seeking to bolster the government’s ability to enforce obscenity laws, the Obama administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) fine against CBS over Janet Jackson’s “wardrobe malfunction...   read more

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a 232-year-old society which routinely honors scientists, writers and scholars, has chosen to honor the banker who created the first “too big to fail” institution that helped cripple the U.S. economy less...   read more

In an attempt to show California voters he’s committed to cutting government waste, Governor Jerry Brown announced this week a plan to eliminate more than 700 bureaucratic reports.   Brown did not say how much money would be saved by cutting the...   read more

On Wednesday, the Obama administration dramatically scaled back its oversight of financial institutions that deal in the $700 trillion derivatives market.   Following the passage of the Dodd-Frank reform law, the Securities and Exchange Commissi...   read more

Florida’s much-publicized law requiring welfare recipients to undergo drug testing has not saved the state money. In fact, it has turned out to be just the opposite.   During four months of testing last year, 2.6% of the welfare applicants faile...   read more