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

Although the United States has deemphasized the importance of land mines in American combat operations, the Obama administration is refusing to reverse a Bush-era policy and sign an international agreement banning such weapons. The Mine Ban Treaty...   read more

Contrary to conventional wisdom, the leaders of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers did not lose out when their firms tanked in 2008. According to researchers at Harvard Law School, the top five executives at these two former Wall Street powerhouses...   read more

The Obama administration wants to use the Internet to expose mistakes by federal agencies that result in contractors or medical providers being paid more than they should for their services or products. After realizing the amount of improper payme...   read more

Described as the first quantitative evidence linking climate change and the risk of civil war, university researchers have concluded rising temperatures on the continent of Africa are likely to result in more warfare in the coming decades. A group...   read more

Delhi, India, has a serious ghost problem on its hands that has local leaders terrified. But the fright has nothing to do with spirits. Rather, the terror has to do with the realization that a local governing body, the Municipal Corporation of Del...   read more

In the wake of April Stephenson’s removal in late October 2009 as head of the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA), U.S. Army Auditor General Patrick J. Fitzgerald was chosen by President Barack Obama to take over the embattled agency. DCAA indepe...   read more

Republicans have tried to make a big deal about the length of the House Democrats’ health care reform plan, using it as a symbol of how much their adversaries love big government. Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), in fact, claimed the Affordable Health ...   read more

Banks are not philanthropic operations, but OneWest Bank, the recipient of $814.2 million in federal bailout funds, has managed to distinguish itself as particularly ruthless when it comes to foreclosures. In Long Island, New York, a local judge ...   read more

For every Internet creation and Global Positioning System development the government has produced, it also has had its share of IT failures. And costly failures at that. Washington Technology has chosen seven of the biggest crashes by federal and ...   read more

President Obama’s choice to lead the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) has created a firestorm of criticism from labor and safety advocacy groups. FMCSA, which is part of the Department of Transportation, is charged with creating...   read more

Aaron S. Williams, the eighteenth Director of the Peace Corps and only the fourth to have served as a Peace Corps Volunteer, was sworn in on August 25, 2009. Williams takes over an agency in considerable flux. On the one hand, Williams’ predecesso...   read more

Alexa E. Posny, chosen by President Barack Obama to run the Department of Education’s Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, previously served in a similar capacity for the Bush administration, after holding various education adm...   read more

Author Les Leopold has given up on government regulation of big banks. It no longer makes sense for “$100,000 a year civil servants” to try to keep watch over “$100 million dollar a year bankers” who can afford an “army of financial engineers to o...   read more

If the world consumed resources and produced waste at the same rate the United States does, human civilization would need five Earths to keep up. This conclusion was reached by the international think tank Global Footprint Network, whose latest st...   read more

Preserving cultural heritage is the aim of the World Monuments Fund (WMF), a nonprofit organization that each year issues a “watch list” of locations around the world that it says deserve preservation. WMF’s 2010 Watch list includes 93 cultural he...   read more

Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed, 48, finds himself in the same limbo as a dozen other Guantánamo detainees who have been ordered released by federal courts, only to remain behinds bars in Cuba. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler ruled last Friday that t...   read more