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

In the days following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, many people I spoke with simply could not understand why anyone, anywhere, would not like Americans, even if it was just a few dozen fanatics. In one form or another, they asked: W...   read more

The Social Security Administration (SSA) has spent tens of millions of dollars paying beneficiaries after they’ve died, some for as long as decades.   An audit by the agency’s inspector general found that since 2008 $40.3 million was paid to m...   read more

Methyl bromide, a hazardous pesticide that most farmers were supposed to stop using six years ago, is still being sprayed in large quantities in parts of California.   An international agreement called for the phaseout of methyl bromide by 200...   read more

The U.S. Attorney’s office in Arizona has been accused of trying to cover up a link between the murder of a Customs and Border Protection agent and a controversial anti-drug program that allowed guns to fall into the hands of cartels.   Shortl...   read more

Senate Republicans want to strip President Barack Obama and all future presidents of the ability to decide whether terrorism suspects should be handed over to civilian law enforcement or the military, preferring instead that detainees automatica...   read more

When the U.S. government wasted somewhere between $30 billion and $60 billion on contracts for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, it did so in a variety of ways.   For example, the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) in 2005 hired Supreme Foodservice of ...   read more

Civil libertarians won an important victory in federal court on Tuesday involving the government’s use of cell phone data to track suspects without a warrant.   Since the September 11 attacks, U.S. intelligence and federal law enforcement agen...   read more

The “don’t ask, don’t tell” years in the U.S. military were difficult for homosexual service members. But now that the discriminatory policy is being eliminated, many gays and lesbians who were forced out of the military want to go back to servi...   read more

A former member of Afghanistan’s defense forces, Sabar Lal Melma was killed recently by NATO troops following his long stint as a detainee in Guantánamo.   At the time of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, Melma was a commander ...   read more

In a move that floored his environmental supporters, President Barack Obama late last week killed a tough new anti-smog plan proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).   Obama’s decision was exactly what Republicans and business in...   read more

Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani doctor who played an instrumental role in the hunt for Osama bin Laden, is currently under arrest without criminal charge in Pakistan.   As part of the secret plan to track down and capture bin Laden, the U.S. wa...   read more

Nevada’s attorney general last week expanded her state’s mortgage fraud lawsuit against Bank of America, a move that could have serious consequences for the embattled bank and a potential settlement between national banks and other attorneys gen...   read more

The dire warnings about the financial state of the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) may soon become dire reality unless Congress can agree to new financing for the cash-strapped agency.   In what has become an annual refrain, Postmaster General Patric...   read more

In the name of stopping political terror since 9/11, governments worldwide have convicted at least 35,000 people. But how many of these individuals were actually terrorists is unclear, due to the efforts of some countries to use anti-terrorism law...   read more

Standard & Poor’s, the Wall Street rating institution whose integrity already was questioned a few years ago, has decided that securities backed by subprime home loans deserve a higher rating than bonds issued by the federal government.   That...   read more

Since the 9/11 Commission issued its report on the causes of the 2001 attacks, governments at the federal, state and local levels have implemented about 75% of the recommendations put forth by the special panel.   But that’s not good enough, say...   read more