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 Department of Defense managed to consume nearly three quarters of a billion dollars by having to pay late fees on rented shipping containers used for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as for other purposes.   After reviewing federa...   read more

The post-9/11 years at the Department of Defense have seen an enormous increase in no-bid contracts, with the lack of competition approaching 50% during the first six months of this year.   Over the course of the last 10 years, the amount of m...   read more

The CIA is being accused of censoring an FBI agent’s book on the fight against terrorism in order to keep the intelligence agency from looking bad.   FBI agent Ali Soufan has written a memoir about his days as a counterterrorism expert from 19...   read more

News from the housing market is still grim, as mortgage applications last week hit a 15-year low.   The mortgage application rate dropped 5.7%, down to the lowest level since December 1996.   Also, re-sales of homes in 2011 may be the worst ...   read more

The rise of Islamophobia in the United States can be traced to a small group of people and organizations who are well financed by about half a dozen foundations, according to the Center for American Progress Action Fund.   After the terrorist ...   read more

To demonstrate President Barack Obama’s commitment to “green” power solutions, the administration’s top energy official promised 10 months ago that solar technology would be installed on top of the White House by the start of summer.   With su...   read more

The Obama administration has refused to declassify a secret memo from the George W. Bush presidency that justified the warrantless spying conducted by the National Security Agency (NSA).   Matthew Aid, a writer who’s covered the NSA and survei...   read more

Florida’s highly-publicized drug-testing experiment for welfare recipients has so far not produced the results proponents anticipated. In fact, the welfare applicants are testing positive at a lower rate than the general population of the state....   read more

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has rejected safety advocates’ attempt to mandate shoulder-lap seat belts in large school buses. Such seat belts are required on smaller school buses.   Nearly a half-million school bu...   read more

The United States is not doing enough to prevent domestic violence, according to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).   The anti-U.S. ruling by the IACHR, which is part of the Organization of American States, marked the first...   read more

On August 2, 2011, President Barack Obama nominated Nancy M. Ware to serve as the Director of the District of Columbia Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency (CSOSA), a large agency that supervises offenders who are on probation, parole,...   read more

The latest release of government files from WikiLeaks shows that the State Department has repeatedly pushed foreign governments to approve genetically-engineered crops and promote the international business interests of corporations like Monsanto ...   read more

Despite the prevalence of recycling programs throughout the country, the United States has been anything but “green” when it comes to disposing its old computers, cell phones and other electronics. The U.S. government has had two decades to beco...   read more

It’s safe to say that the dozen members of Congress charged with coming up with a plan for trimming $1.5 trillion from the federal budget won’t lack for input from lobbyists.   It turns out that the six Republicans and six Democrats on the Joi...   read more

Paul D. Wohlers, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, was confirmed as U.S. ambassador to the Balkan nation of Macedonia on August 2, 2011. Wohlers has previous experience in Macedonia.    Born circa 1952, Wohlers graduated from the ...   read more

Lewis Lukens, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, has served as the U.S. ambassador to Senegal and to Guinea-Bissau since July 11, 2011. As the son of a diplomat, Lukens once lived in Senegal as a child.   His father, Alan W. Lukens...   read more