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

Five years after it was written, and 15 months after the Bush administration released a heavily redacted version, the Obama administration has published a less censored version of the report by the CIA’s inspector general that reviewed the early i...   read more

In preparation for the thousands of English-speaking visitors expected to attend next year’s World Expo fair, the city of Shanghai is working on correcting its many lost-in-translation signs found in restaurants and public places. The plan is to e...   read more

While it might seem counterintuitive, a great way to stimulate the economy would be to encourage older Americans to leave the employment sector by lowering the retirement age to 55, argues progressive talk show host Thom Hartmann. For the plan to ...   read more

Experts on Wall Street have come up with a plan for moving the billions of dollars in mortgages that are still clogging the financial system and keeping banks from offering new loans: Take some bad loans, package them with some good ones, and sell...   read more

Kathleen Martinez’s nomination as the Department of Labor’s Assistant Secretary for Disability Employment Policy came the day after President Barack Obama joked with Jay Leno on the Tonight Show about how his poor bowling score compared with those...   read more

At a time when many people are contemplating human rights abuses committed by Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan, William Calley, more than 40 years after he led one of the most notorious attacks in U.S. military history, publicly apologized for th...   read more

After months of closely following the public debate over health care reform, a trio of reporters from Congressional Quarterly decided to expose the half truths and outright lies promulgated by both Democrats and Republicans and their support group...   read more

Energy trader Andrew J. Hall is set to receive $98 million from CitiGroup for his work buying and selling oil shares on behalf of the bank. The fact that CitiGroup is preparing to pay this bonus is politically volatile for the Obama administration...   read more

“Absurd” is not a word often found amid the dry accounting investigations performed by inspectors general of the federal government. But the IG for the Department of Veterans Affairs couldn’t help but use the word, and others like “nepotism,” to d...   read more

The new chief federal official for K-12 education empathizes easily with students who face difficulties in school. Born in 1958 to Mexican immigrants, Dr. Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana arrived at kindergarten unable to speak or read English, and fo...   read more

Is racial profiling always a bad thing? Professor Walter E. Williams of George Mason University doesn’t think so. He points out examples where decisions are made based on an individual’s ethnicity, with little or no concern expressed for such disc...   read more

To repair relations with this country’s Latin American neighbors, President Obama has turned to a leading academic who was born and raised in South America and has studied the region his entire adult life. Arturo Valenzuela is a specialist on Chil...   read more

Called out of retirement to head the Food and Nutrition Service in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Julie Paradis is a longtime lawyer specializing in agricultural issues who divided her 30-year career between Congress and the USDA.   ...   read more

The cost of health insurance hasn’t just outpaced the growth of family incomes in the United States—it’s blown past. According to a new study by the Commonwealth Fund, employer-sponsored fam­ily health insurance premiums rose by 119% from 1999 to ...   read more

In the early months of his administration, President Barack Obama criticized the reliance on private contractors to help fight America’s war in Iraq, saying “too much money has been paid out for services that were never performed, buildings that w...   read more

Detainees held at secret camps run by American commandoes will now have their identities released to the International Committee of the Red Cross under a new policy crafted by the Obama administration. While George W. Bush was president of the Uni...   read more