Trump ordered that the term Homo sapiens be changed to Hetero sapiens. In history books and on websites, the airplane from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima will no longer be identified as the Enola Gay, but rather the Enola Straight. Trump also ordered billionaire Mark Cuban, who supported Kamala Harris in the 2024 election, to change his name to Mark American. If he does not do so, he will be charged with terrorism.   read more

The story of Shoshana Johnson differs markedly from that of Jessica Lynch, the Army POW whose rescue in Iraq received great fanfare in the media back in 2003. Contrary to how the Bush administration and the media at that time portrayed the inciden...   read more

Corporations now can give more than ever to political campaigns, thanks to the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling that businesses’ donations are a protected form of free speech. But day laborers in California are arguing they deserve the same kind of leg...   read more

Membership in the U.S. Senate has been likened to that of an exclusive club, both because of its limited number of seats (100) and the fact that most senators tend to be wealthy individuals. Income level, in fact, prompted Annie Lowery of The Wash...   read more

More than 70 political appointees to federal posts are being held up in the U.S. Senate by one man—Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL)—who wants approximately $40 billion in programs for his state, or else. Critics have accused Shelby of extortion in hi...   read more

Eight American soldiers died last October trying to defend a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan that the military was already planning to give up. The troops were part of the 3rd Squadron of the 61st Cavalry Regiment stationed at Combat Outpost...   read more

It was good news/bad news for Bank of America last Thursday. On the same day its lawyers announced a new settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its handling of the September 2008 Merrill Lynch takeover, bank executives w...   read more

Shaken by a massive cyberattack in December that originated in China, Google is turning to the government’s top electronic spying operation, the National Security Agency (NSA), for help. The Internet search-engine giant has declined to reveal the ...   read more

Take the Fountain of Youth, throw in some Blade Runner and you have the Department of Defense’s latest futuristic concept for warfare. Known as “BioDesign,” the program by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) seeks to create “synt...   read more

Unable to get by on tax revenues alone, fire departments across the country have turned to charging people who need their help. ABC News reported one instance in which a woman who lost her home to fire suffered the added misery of getting billed $...   read more

There’s pay-to-play, referring to the money-driven nature of our political system, and now there’s pay-to-overthrow, thanks to a new law on the books in South Carolina. Whether it’s al-Qaeda, Hamas, or even an American fascist group, all terrorist...   read more

William Magwood’s nomination by President Barack Obama to serve on the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has come under attack by groups on the left claiming the nominee has too cozy of a relationship with the nuclear power industry. Environment...   read more

When Boa Sr, the last remaining member of the Bo tribe on the Andaman Islands, died last week, she took with her an ancient language. The 85-year-old woman was the oldest of all the Great Andamanese people, who now number 52. But she was the only ...   read more

Educators in North Carolina want to restructure the teaching of American history, provoking outrage among some parents and conservative organizations fearful of revisionism.   To give high school students the opportunity to delve deeper into 20t...   read more

American banks, real estate and law firms have been assisting foreign governments to hide or launder stolen money, according to an investigation by a U.S. Senate committee. Even though federal law requires financial institutions to reject so-calle...   read more

Malang Zafar. Noor Agha. Fadi Ahmad. Zabit Yasin. Gulam Farooq. Shadi Khan. These are just a few of the more than 600 names of people detained in Afghanistan at the “other Guantánamo,” known officially as the Bagram Theater Internment Facility. Wh...   read more

Nancy Fichtner isn’t the only federal employee with an idea for how the U.S. government can save money. Fichtner, winner of last year’s contest sponsored by the White House, proposed that the Department of Veterans Affairs stop throwing away unuse...   read more