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

If President Barack Obama wants to increase the number of college graduates in order to make the United States more competitive internationally, he will have to find ways to make financial assistance more available. A new study from the Bill & Mel...   read more

Root root root for the home team would be advisable for incumbent politicians facing a tight re-election battle. Voters, as they are wont to do, don’t always make their voting decisions entirely on the merits of a candidate’s record in office, and...   read more

To demonstrate President Barack Obama’s commitment to making the U.S. government more transparent and accessible to Americans, the White House has issued an Open Government directive which spells out how various federal agencies will make certain ...   read more

One out of every six Americans in recent years has been exposed to contaminated drinking water, according to an investigation by The New York Times. A review of government records found numerous water districts throughout the United States have fa...   read more

In the world of partisan politics, even bathroom breaks are exploited in order to seize power. That’s what happened in North Carolina on Monday when Republicans on the Wake County Board of Commissioners took advantage of Democrat Betty Lou Ward’s ...   read more

Ending one of the longest and most complicated lawsuits ever brought against the U.S. government, attorneys representing American Indians have won a $3.4 billion settlement from the Department of the Interior. The suit was brought because of alleg...   read more

Police in Brazil’s two largest cities, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, have functioned as judge, jury and executioner in recent years by summarily executing suspects and then covering up the killings with false reports. According to a new report b...   read more

Taxi drivers can be a source of valuable information, from how to get to an important meeting on time to where to stay when in town. But relying on them for military intelligence that helped start the decade’s most controversial war?   According...   read more

Between uncertainty over what to change and an unwillingness to impose serious reforms, Congress is expected to leave the credit ratings industry largely untouched, even though its role in the economic collapse was paramount. At the heart of the p...   read more

On June 10, 2006, three Saudi prisoners at Guantánamo Bay were found hanging in their separate cells—hands and feet tied, gags in their mouths—but the U.S. military ruled the deaths a well-coordinated group suicide intended to make the United Stat...   read more

Estimates of the number of cars in the United States today vary from 140 million to 250 million. But in order for the U.S. to spew as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere as it does from coal-burning power plants, the nation would have to run n...   read more

On May 1, 2009, Adam E. Namm took over as acting director of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations (OBO), a State Department agency responsible for the buildings that house America’s overseas embassies, consulates and missions, including mor...   read more

When it comes to collecting back taxes, nothing is too sacred for the Internal Revenue Service. The IRS last week auctioned off more than 7,000 acres of land in Central South Dakota belonging to the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe, which owed $3.1 million ...   read more

Arguing that it is cheaper to buy new equipment instead of shipping the old, the U.S. military has decided to donate tens of millions of dollars in vehicles and other materials to the Iraqi government rather than send it to Afghanistan. The decisi...   read more

Proving to cynics that “government openness” is an oxymoron, the Department of Justice decided to prevent the public from attending a workshop on Monday dedicated to the subject of accessing federal information. Employees from various government a...   read more

Reflecting what critics have called a paranoid attitude, the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has fired its top expert on Afghanistan after he published an Op-Ed critical of the Obama administration’s plans for trying Guantánamo detainees in c...   read more