The majority of voters did not vote for Donald Trump for president; the majority of voters did not vote for Republican candidates for the Senate; and fewer than 51% of voters cast their ballots for Republican candidates for the House of Representatives. The Republican Party now controls the White House, both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court, no matter how that came to be. I believe it is worth bearing in mind that a majority of U.S. citizens did not support the Republican winners.   read more

Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), one of the nation’s largest private prison operators, was on the verge of going bankrupt 12 years ago. Today, CCA along with other companies are raking in federal tax dollars by housing thousands of illega...   read more

One of the nation’s largest advertising billboard companies will not face criminal prosecution for killing thousands of trees in Florida.   Lamar Advertising Co. avoided going to trial after the State Attorney’s office in Tallahassee decided not...   read more

Four decades after he legally immigrated to the U.S., Navy veteran Hilario Rivas-Melendrez was deported to Mexico for a crime he committed in 1980.   Rivas-Melendrez settled in the U.S. in 1970. About 10 years later, he was convicted of statutor...   read more

Calling for “flexibility” in the battle against global warming, the Obama administration is fighting a proposed international goal for limiting increases in global temperatures.   At issue is a target established at the 2010 United Nations’ clim...   read more

Republican Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is leading a bipartisan effort to impose a stick-and-carrot method of getting the Department of Defense to clean up its books and crack down on defense contractors.   The proposed legislation would punis...   read more

A doctor’s recommendation for a certain type of prescription drug may have more to it than just the medication’s efficacy.   About 40% of prescribing physicians were paid money or benefits by pharmaceutical companies that manufactured the drugs ...   read more

Corn and sugarcane could have competition in the growing industry of biofuels, now that the federal government has decided to fund research into willow plants.   A $1.37 million grant from the Department of Energy and the Department of Agricultu...   read more

Researchers at Harvard and in China have concluded that fluoride in water may impair children’s mental development.   After examining the results of 27 Chinese-based studies, experts from the Harvard School of Public Health and China Medical Uni...   read more

A federal appeals court has upheld a controversial South Dakota law that requires doctors to tell patients considering an abortion that the procedure can lead to increased risks of suicide.   Planned Parenthood filed a lawsuit challenging the 20...   read more

Regardless of President Barack Obama’s public declarations that the U.S. will not provide arms to Syria’s rebels, the White House has approved a secret order authorizing support for those seeking to depose dictator Bashar al-Assad.   The order, ...   read more

“Justice delayed is justice denied.” This legal maxim describes the fundamental legal principle that when the legal system moves too slowly its remedies can become meaningless and people’s rights will suffer. “Pop-up” groups that falsely claim to ...   read more

It is a big, scary number—$1,000,000,000,000 (one trillion dollars)—that politicians, including President Obama, military leaders and anti-virus software companies allege is the annual cost of cybercrime. And it is a number that is very likely wro...   read more

Mitt Romney has tapped a leading public relations expert with a long resume of controversial work to help deflect attack ads targeting the Republican candidate’s years at Bain Capital.   Michele Davis, currently a partner at the Brunswick Group,...   read more

The state of America’s children is a decidedly mixed bag, according to a newly released federal report, as the Great Recession continues to take a toll on the youngest Americans. On the plus side, teen pregnancy and violent crime against children ...   read more

Because I am the president of the International Society of Olympic Historians, a lot of people have been asking me if I think Michael Phelps is the greatest athlete in Olympic history. The short answer is that he is one of the greatest, but not ...   read more

Although the Supreme Court in June ruled that it is unconstitutional to sentence someone convicted of homicide to life without the possibility of parole if the defendant committed the crime as a juvenile, the response of several states seems to be...   read more