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

Who says President Barack Obama isn’t a traditionalist? The man who promised change in Washington has decided to continue the long-held habit of presidents reserving the post of ambassador to France for, well, anyone but career diplomats. Only one...   read more

To understand the real Washington, DC, is to witness what goes on beyond the public hearings or prefabricated press conferences, write Bill Moyers and Michael Winship. Case in point: the debacle of Washington Post publisher Katharine Weymouth’s at...   read more

Many giants of Wall Street are still struggling to rebound from the collapse last year. Morgan Stanley is expected to report a loss for its second quarter of 2009, while Citigroup and Bank of America are barely getting by with the help of the fede...   read more

For almost three decades officials in Texas had a single approach to convicted criminals: lock ‘em up. But after watching its prison population explode by more than 500%, and facing a shrinking state budget, conservative lawmakers embraced alterna...   read more

President George W. Bush’s insistence on continuing the warrantless wiretapping program in 2004 almost forced the resignations of some of top law enforcement officials in the administration, according to federal inspectors of the government’s top ...   read more

Jim Hightower is still waiting for his “thank you” card from the bailed-out banks. He argues that every taxing-paying citizen deserves a big “thanks” from the financial industry for the trillion-dollar bailout that kept it from going belly up from...   read more

Tim Roemer is an example of ambassadorial appointment grounded not in six- or seven-figure bundles of cash, like some of those chosen by President Barack Obama, but in priceless political support that came at a crucial time. As a former congressma...   read more

Army Reservist David Hutchinson barely got himself assimilated in Afghanistan last May before his superiors started calling him a hero for his actions in an intense firefight with Taliban guerrillas.   A convoy of the Army Reserve’s 420th Engine...   read more

Researchers at Keele University in England have concluded that the use of expletives may be beneficial when experiencing physical pain. Psychologists had student volunteers submerge their hands into icy water, and those who swore felt less pain an...   read more

For the second year in a row the city of Los Angeles is funding a special program to remove the urban shadows that have allowed street gangs to rule the night across South Central. “Summer Night Lights” keeps 16 parks across crime-ridden neighborh...   read more

President Obama’s choice to be in charge of the American Battle Monuments Commission is a grievously wounded Vietnam veteran, twice decorated for bravery. Former U.S. Senator Max Cleland, who lost his Senate seat in an ugly and controversial re-el...   read more

Normally, if a U.S. president objects to a law passed by Congress, he vetoes it. But there is another mechanism that presidents claim allows them to ignore a certain section of a law if the president says he considers it unconstitutional or that i...   read more

Recent statistics showing an uptick in the housing market are skewed by the fact that almost half of all homes sales in April were resells of foreclosures, in large part because traditional sales have been dulled by what some call “idiotic” standa...   read more

The FBI is now investigating the mysterious death of Henry Glover of New Orleans, who died on September 2, 2005, during the flooding of the city by Hurricane Katrina. According to resident Will Tanner, he found Glover, an African American, with a ...   read more

Tourists from the United States have managed to expand the definition of “ugly American” in the latest Expedia survey ranking the worst travelers around the world. American tourists took top honors for being loudest, sloppiest, biggest complainers...   read more

If we step back and really look at the condition of state government in the country, we see a mass of political failure, argues syndicated columnist Neal Peirce. Ten states ended their fiscal years still trying to resolve billion-dollar deficits, ...   read more