Imagine that China’s dictator, Xi Jinping, sends one million Chinese troops to invade the United States. Fighting breaks out all over the U.S. as U.S. troops and civilians battle against the Chinese invaders. Hundreds of thousands, if not millions, are killed. Meanwhile, China has taken over Florida and declared it an overseas province of China, with Chinese nationals taking over control of the Florida government.   read more

A Democrat who hails from South Dakota, Jonathan S. Adelstein has spent the past seven years serving as a member of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), advocating for greater Internet services for rural America. As the head of the Rural U...   read more

Joe Szabo, the first union official ever to lead the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), was confirmed on April 29, 2009. Until his appointment, he worked since the mid-1990s as the top lobbyist in Illinois for the nation’s largest railroad wor...   read more

Continuing a strategy focused on the supply side of the drug problem, the Obama administration on Friday unveiled its counternarcotics policy for the Southwest, calling for greater investment in technology to intercept drug shipments over the U.S....   read more

Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen of Tennessee has vetoed only six bills in his seven years in office, and until last week, the Legislature had never overridden a single one. But lawmakers were determined to overcome Bredesen’s objections when it ...   read more

The Federal Trade Commission last week sent a message to those who support illegal activities on the Internet that there’s a new sheriff in town. In a move deemed unprecedented by some Internet analysts, the FTC got a judge to order the shutdown o...   read more

Long overdue, the democratization of corporate board elections would serve as a check for both management and shareholders, argues Roger Lowenstein, director of the Sequoia Fund. Traditionally, shareholders have had virtually no influence on corpo...   read more

Montgomery County, Maryland, is the site of a fierce debate over whether a local government has the right to designate private property as “historic” against the will of the owner. The property in question is owned by Sherwood Duvall, 90, who ha...   read more

Determined to bring nature back into the urban environment, the city of Leeds in the United Kingdom sponsored a design competition to find new ways of creating habitat for birds and small animals. The winner of the competition devised towers made ...   read more

When President George W. Bush came up with his plan in 2003 to protect the nation’s key computer systems from cyber attacks, he called for collaborative efforts involving public-private partnerships and international organizations, all while prote...   read more

Drug abuse and mental illness are challenges officials face everywhere in the country, but for some states certain problems are more acute than others. Utah, for example, leads the United States in the rate of “serious psychological distress,” but...   read more

Five years ago the federal government gave American corporations a one-time tax holiday on profits made overseas so that they would invest the savings in the U.S. operations and create new jobs. A new study has found, however, that few companies u...   read more

If you’ve wondered how life would be different if John McCain had won the 2008 presidential election, here’s one example of McCain supporting a policy that Barack Obama opposes.   At the urging of President Obama, members of the U.S. Senate are ...   read more

Meriwether Lewis, one half of the famed Lewis and Clark expedition that mapped vast stretches of the unexplored American West in the early 1800s, was said to have committed suicide only a few years after completing his journey. But current descend...   read more

On November 12, 2008, in Chesapeake, Virginia, two Allied Terminals storage tanks collapsed, releasing two million gallons of liquid urea ammonium nitrate fertilizer into the surrounding residential area and seriously injuring two contractors work...   read more

Assuming the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Malaki can maintain stability once the U.S. withdraws its forces next year, Iraq has ambitious plans for expanding oil and natural gas production, with the first big contracts to be due to be awar...   read more

Republicans and Democrats in Congress have joined consumer advocates in calling for the Obama administration to move quickly and close a loophole in federal law that bill collectors are exploiting to seize veterans benefits and Social Security pay...   read more