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

Heroin, LSD, mescaline, peyote, psilocybin, methaqualone and, still … marijuana.   For the third time in 40 years, the federal government denied a petition to reclassify the Class I drug marijuana because it “has a high potential for abuse, has ...   read more

To demonstrate her conservative bona fides with Iowa voters, Republican Michele Bachmann became the first presidential candidate to sign a pledge by a religious right group, The Family Leader, that contains 14 points addressing everything from opp...   read more

Republican anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist famously once said he wanted to reduce government “to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.” He made some headway in June.   While the private sector added a disa...   read more

Zhang Yesui was named China’s Ambassador to the United States in March 2010.   Zhang was born in Hubei Province in October 1953. He graduated from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1975, and attended the London School of Economics from 1975 ...   read more

A career diplomat who previously served as ambassador to two other African nations, Wanda L. Nesbitt became U.S. ambassador to Namibia in November 2010.   A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania with bachelor of arts degrees in internationa...   read more

In Wisconsin, home of the much-maligned Republican effort to weaken the collective bargaining power of public employees, a local county is considering the use of prison inmates for community upkeep in place of union workers.   Racine County Jail...   read more

Humberto Leal Garcia, a Mexican national convicted in Texas of murdering a teenage girl, was executed on Thursday after the U.S. Supreme Court denied a last-ditch legal effort to postpone his death.   Leal’s case drew considerable attention from...   read more

A new environmental regulation from the Obama administration intended to cut pollution and save lives has been blasted by the coal industry as a job killer.   The Environmental Protection Agency finalized the “Cross-State Air Pollution Rule” tha...   read more

Overview: The newest nation in the world, officially born July 9, 2011, is the Republic of South Sudan, which seceded from the larger nation of Sudan after decades of civil war that took millions of lives and severely retarded the South’s developm...   read more

Robert A. Miller was appointed to the State Justice Institute (SJI) Board of Governors in February 1998. The SJI is a non-profit corporation run by the 11 members of its Board of Directors, each of whom is appointed by the President of the United ...   read more

The war in Afghanistan is over for the armed forces of Canada, which will pull out all of its remaining personnel before the end of the year.   After nine years of combat, the remaining 2,800 Canadian troops recently began turning over their dis...   read more

We’re only halfway through the year, but it looks like a lot of the companies Americans love to hate are continuing to frustrate and bedevil them.   The American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) surveys thousands of people about 245 companie...   read more

President Barak Obama’s first crack at an online town hall held exclusively through Twitter proved to be an opportune move for House Republicans who flooded the event with bated questions and negative remarks about the economy.   Led by House Sp...   read more

Seventeen years after the North American Free Trade Agreement went into effect, the U.S. government has agreed to a controversial provision allowing trucks from Mexico to deliver goods deep into the country. The turnabout by the Obama administrati...   read more

Michele Bachmann’s husband, Marcus, plays a multi-faceted role in the rising Republican’s campaign for her party’s presidential nomination. But as he sketches out a new role for himself, his day job is drawing a bit of attention.   Marcus Bach...   read more

When an individual’s income, both pre-tax and after-tax, goes up more than 400%, shouldn’t they pay taxes like those eking out a living?   That’s the argument by tax reformers who want to go after some of the biggest earners on Wall Street. In...   read more