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

Some Sunni Muslim men and women are protesting a proposed law in Mali that would put the two sexes on equal footing for the first time. If the measure—adopted by the Malian parliament but awaiting President Amadou Toumani Toure’s signature—goes in...   read more

Were it not for President Barack Obama’s “no lobbyists” policy, Mark Gitenstein might well have taken over the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Policy. But Gitenstein’s prior lobbying work on behalf of business clients, including the U.S....   read more

A coalition of advocacy organizations including the NAACP and Africa Action are lobbying Congress to adopt new legislation that would prevent so-called “vulture” funds from buying up debts owed by developing countries to Western governments and fi...   read more

William C. Eacho, III is another important fundraiser for President Barack Obama who has been rewarded with an ambassadorship, this one to Austria. Eacho has spent much of his corporate career working in the food service distribution industry, whi...   read more

What Alfonso Lenhardt lacks in diplomatic experience, he makes up for in knowledge of military affairs and security, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing to have as the next ambassador to Tanzania. In 1998 the American embassy in Dar es Salaam was ...   read more

Senator Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) is not ashamed of the federal money he funnels back to his home state. “It may please you or it may not please you,” Inouye told a group of Hawaiian business and social representatives recently. “I’m the No. 1 earm...   read more

U.S. Army officials near San Antonio have successfully lobbied local officials to pass a new ordinance making it more difficult for developers to build new properties near Camp Bullis, a key subsection of Fort Sam Houston. The primary weapon used ...   read more

Going from a Republican administration to a Democratic administration has had no adverse effect on immigration crackdowns—in fact, arrests have gone up. Data analyzed by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University show th...   read more

President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has earned the scorn of critics both inside and outside of Iran for selecting Ahmad Vahidi as the country’s next defense minister. Vahidi has been accused by Interpol of participating in the 1994 bombing of a Jewish c...   read more

Rather than helping reduce global warming, biofuels may be exacerbating climate change and causing other environmental and social problems, according to a new study from Christian Aid, a British missionary organization. Researchers concluded that ...   read more

Rose Gottemoeller was sworn in as the Assistant Secretary of State for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation on April 6, 2009. A longtime expert in nuclear weapons proliferation and arms control, Gottemoeller will be personally responsible ...   read more

John Q. Easton has Education Secretary Arne Duncan to thank for his new job in Washington as head of the Institute of Education Sciences. A longtime specialist in education research from Chicago, Easton has known Duncan for nearly 20 years as a re...   read more

Eating fish from America’s streams is becoming increasingly dangerous, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey. After examining almost 300 streams from across the country, scientists concluded that 25% of fish contained dangerous le...   read more

For thousands of homeowners struggling to keep up on mortgage payments, there is the added difficulty of falling behind on property taxes and having to deal with opportunistic companies that have taken over tax collecting for local governments. Nu...   read more

It just doesn’t pay to make money these days. This is especially true for officials running the U.S. Mint, producer of America’s coined currency. Due to price increases in raw materials like copper and nickel, it costs more to manufacture a penny ...   read more

The United States’ military spending, which currently costs almost as much as that of all the other nations of the world combined, is unnecessarily large, according to Doug Bandow, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute. Compared to World War II an...   read more