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

Not starting wars with other countries and maintaining a solid human rights record has landed New Zealand at the top of the list of the world’s most peaceful nations. Based on the Global Peace Index created by the group Vision of Humanity, New Zea...   read more

Preserving the world’s treasures includes not just natural and man-made creations, such as the Great Wall of China or the Great Barrier Reef. It also includes cultural traditions, and since 2001, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cult...   read more

Low-wage workers in the nation’s three largest labor markets are subject to being paid less than minimum wage, and denied overtime pay and other legally-protected rights, according to a new survey conducted by a group of researchers and academics....   read more

Despite its name, and primary mission, the Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) is not very good at auditing defense contracts. An investigation by the Pentagon’s inspector general concluded that the working environment at the DCAA is “not conduci...   read more

Playing football can be bad for the brain, and the National Football League is starting to own up to this fact. After years of disregarding independent medical studies on the long-term effects that the game has on players, the NFL commissioned its...   read more

Accusations of contractor fraud and mismanagement of grave sites have been leveled on the “nation’s most sacred shrine”—Arlington National Cemetery. Investigations by Salon.com have found the cemetery’s deputy superintendent, Thurman Higginbotham,...   read more

As if things weren’t bad enough for the GOP with respect to its poor relations with Latinos, the Republican National Committee demonstrated this week that it can’t even put out a press release in Spanish without appearing insensitive. The statemen...   read more

The nation’s most powerful business lobby recently called for a “Scopes monkey trial of the 21st century” on the science of climate change, presumably to prove that the outcry over global warming has been exaggerated. This remark did not sit well ...   read more

From approximately 8,000 appeals, the U.S. Supreme Court hears about 80 cases a year. This is barely half of what the high court used to hear in the 1980s, when the average yearly workload was 150 cases. Yale’s law school recently conducted a conf...   read more

In the end, the federal government had virtually nothing substantial on Guantánamo detainee Fouad al Rabiah, prompting U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly to call the evidence against him “surprisingly bare” while ordering his release. “If ...   read more

“Medicare-for-All,” touted by liberals who want a government-run solution, is not the answer to the nation’s health care crisis, argues physician Deane Waldman. First of all, the existing Medicare program, unlike Medicaid, was never intended to be...   read more

A Utah attorney conducting his own investigation of the April 19, 1995, Oklahoma City bombing managed to get the FBI to release four different videotapes of the area around the former Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on the morning of the explosi...   read more

FBI agents combed the Danziger Bridge in New Orleans on Saturday looking for evidence related to the shooting of six individuals by local police only days following Hurricane Katrina. Two people were killed and another four wounded during the inci...   read more

In an effort to save money and become more efficient, the U.S. armed forces is embracing the idea of joint military bases for the first time, merging Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps personnel under a single command. In southern New Jersey, ...   read more

Who says the Republican “big tent” isn’t large enough to accommodate people of all stripes… and polytheistic persuasions. In the New York suburb of Queens, Republican leaders have rallied around lawyer Dan Halloran, a city council candidate and wo...   read more

Next week, Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada will be a free man. As the first commissioned officer to refuse deployment to Iraq, Watada has waged legal battles for three years with the Army, which tried to court-martial him for insubordination and cond...   read more