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

Free press and human rights advocates have been astonished by the United Nations’ decision to allow Egypt, a country that routinely cracks down on human expression, to host a conference about the Internet. The Internet Governance Forum, consisting...   read more

Political cartoonists have long characterized Washington politicians as puppets of special interests, but the recent revelation about the influence of lobbyists for Genentech during the health care debate demonstrates the joke can be all too real....   read more

Federal officials in charge of preventing fraud in the billion-dollar Medicare program ignored dozens of warnings of criminal activity during the Bush administration, according to investigations by the Associated Press and U.S. Senator Charles Gra...   read more

The Convention on the Rights of the Child, established to promote and protect the well-being of children throughout the world, will be officially 20 years old on November 20. On that day nations everywhere will celebrate the landmark treaty—except...   read more

The legislation sounded innocuous enough: The Financial Modernization Act. But proponents, who included almost the entire U.S. Senate and the Clinton administration, were euphoric over the passage of the bill in November 1999 that revoked the Depr...   read more

Nature’s teddy bear, the koala, may soon become extinct, warns an environmental group in Australia. A recent study by the Australian Koala Foundation found that the koala population has fallen from 100,000 to 43,000 in just the last six years, and...   read more

It’s getting to the point where perhaps even the “Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television” might start making regular appearances someday on network TV. Back when comedian George Carlin first performed his famous bit about the Federal Communic...   read more

Bison by the thousands have been slaughtered by the federal government this decade to appease Montana ranchers, prompting a lawsuit from conservationists. About 3,500 bison have been killed in and around Yellowstone National Park since 2000 becaus...   read more

For those who just can’t get enough of everything related to the Grateful Dead, the University of California, Santa Cruz has the perfect job. The university’s library currently is seeking an archivist to organize and maintain two football fields w...   read more

While military officials deal with the aftermath of the Fort Hood killings, mental health experts warn that the U.S. Army can’t forget about the patients of the gunman, Major Nidal Malik Hasan. The Army psychiatrist cared for soldiers at Walter Re...   read more

The war in Afghanistan is indeed a costly one, due not only to the expense of fighting the Taliban—but also paying them off so they don’t attack American supply convoys. This revelation was discovered by The Nation in its investigation of Afghan c...   read more

Members of India’s transgender community have won recognition from state election officials who agreed to add the category “other” to forms and web pages asking for gender identity. Until now, hijras (eunuchs), hermaphrodites, transvestites and tr...   read more

Social networking websites like Facebook and MySpace aren’t just for communicating. They’re also for catching bad guys and freeing the innocent. Recently, Facebook came to the rescue of 19-year-old Rodney Bradford, who was accused by local authori...   read more

Being a former member of the U.S. Air Force and a diplomat with dual citizenship wasn’t enough to keep Hans Joachim Keil from being thrown into jail by American immigration officials who thought he was an illegal alien and seized his U.S. and Samo...   read more

As if things weren’t bad enough for veterans, many of whom don’t have health insurance coverage, job prospects are also quite poor for soldiers returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq. Overall, the unemployment rate for veterans (from all conflic...   read more

The Obama administration wants to allow what business-friendly Republicans voted to end years ago—a free pass for American companies that avoid paying taxes by incorporating overseas, but still receive federal contracts. In 2002, Democratic lawmak...   read more