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

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Donald W. Koran was nominated in April 2011 by President Barack Obama to serve as U.S. ambassador to Rwanda.   Koran received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and earned...   read more

With Arctic ice receding due to global warming, American officials have been cozying up to Greenland, where future oil and mineral deposits may become available to exploration.   State Department cables released by WikiLeaks reveal that the U....   read more

If the United States endures a nuclear power plant disaster, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) may have to be renamed the Nuclear Complicity Commission.   Rather than enforce safety regulations governing the operation of nuclear plants, ...   read more

Whether or not it’s of any comfort to the millions of American who have been out of work for months or even years, the number of people currently competing for available employment has shrunk.   As of March, an average of 4.3 jobseekers vied f...   read more

The Girl Scouts of the USA received a harsh lesson recently in social media etiquette when they tried to censor online comments calling for a change in the ingredients of their famous cookies.   To date, Girl Scouts cookies are made using palm...   read more

May 13 is the only Friday the Thirteenth of the year 2011. Despite the deep-rooted superstition that this is a day for bad happenings, Friday the Thirteenths in history have seen some positive events. Here are eight of them.   1. Alfred Dreyfus ...   read more

When the human price of fighting the Iraq and Afghanistan wars has come up over the past decade, it’s been the death toll of American soldiers that media stories have focused on. But this choice has ignored the fact that thousands of defense con...   read more

Less than two months after it was released to the public, a report on corruption in Afghanistan’s Central Bank has been retroactively classified by the inspector general of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).   The now-secre...   read more

Neither the Department of Veterans Affairs nor Dell Inc. have bothered to make a big deal out of announcing a new contract worth nearly half a billion dollars, prompting speculation over why.   Quietly revealed on a federal government website (F...   read more

With her term expiring this summer, Sheila Bair has decided five years is enough as head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). Her departure will cost the Obama administration a progressive voice on banking and Wall Street regulat...   read more

“Jasmine” has become the political equivalent of “fire” in a crowded movie theater for leaders in China, who consider the word dangerous to the point of being unmentionable because it has come to mean one thing: revolution.   After Tunisians ros...   read more

The controversial use of hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) to bolster natural gas drilling has been linked scientifically for the first time to flammable drinking water.   Four scientists at Duke University found higher levels of flammabl...   read more

Illinois wants out of a supposedly voluntary federal program in which state law enforcement agencies inform immigration agents about illegal immigrants who have committed crimes. But the Obama administration is refusing to let Illinois out of th...   read more

The U.S. Navy was going to train its chaplains to perform same-sex marriages in military chapels—until Republicans in Congress raised an uproar over the idea.   Following the end of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the Navy altered its chaplain traini...   read more

Acting under the belief that raw milk should never be consumed, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is taking a Pennsylvania Amish farmer to court to prevent him from selling unpasteurized milk.   After a yearlong investigation that in...   read more

From the highest to lowest courts in the land, Bob Dylan’s lyrics appear more frequently in legal opinions than any other singer or musical group, according to a University of Texas professor.   After searching legal databases to identify lyri...   read more