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

Mitt Romney’s success in capturing the Republican presidential nomination can be attributed in large part to his embracing the super PAC concept more effectively than his GOP rivals. Doing so also has given him a key advantage over his target for ...   read more

What do workers in Belgium, Finland, Germany and the United Kingdom have that their counterparts in the United States don’t? Mandatory paid sick leave.   The U.S. is currently the only one of 22 industrialized nations that does not require emplo...   read more

Four decades since it last conscripted young men for warfare, the Department of Defense has allowed its system for a military draft to lapse and become unreliable in the event of an emergency. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently...   read more

“Released” has become a meaningless word at Guantánamo Bay for nearly 90 detainees who continue to be held after the U.S. government said they could be freed. President Barack Obama’s interagency Guantánamo Review Task Force approved the releas...   read more

A local chapter of the Ku Klux Klan is seeking to “adopt” a highway in Georgia, putting state officials in a bind. The International Keystone Knights of the KKK filed an application last month with the Georgia Department of Transportation to ad...   read more

Police in San Gabriel, California, announced that Secretary of Commerce John Bryson was charged on Saturday after being involved in two hit-and-run accidents. According to the official press release, Bryson, driving a Lexus, first rear-ended a c...   read more

Police officers in Indiana are upset over a new law allowing residents to use deadly force against public servants, including law enforcement officers, who unlawfully enter their homes. It was signed by Republican Governor Mitch Daniels in March...   read more

If this is the age of budget cutbacks and government austerity, someone ought to tell the Pentagon and its weapons contractors, because they haven’t gotten the memo about shared sacrifice. According to a summary of the top federal contractors pr...   read more

A report released by Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) asserts that about $70 billion appropriated by Congress have gone unspent, becoming, as the report title states, “Money for Nothing.” Coburn’s office cites numerous examples of cases in which ...   read more

Airborne mercury from half way around the world has wound up in the Great Lakes in measurable quantities. But the largest contributor of this harmful substance to Lake Michigan and other bodies of water is nearby coal-burning power plants.   C...   read more

In the wake of the May 21st resignation of Gregory Jaczko as chair of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), President Obama moved quickly to nominate a replacement on May 24, tapping geologist and nuclear waste disposal expert Allison M. Macf...   read more

It is with great pleasure that we announce the launch of AllGov France, the first expansion of AllGov outside the United States. Like allgov.com, allgov.fr is built on a foundation of hundreds of trustworthy, well-researched articles about a wide ...   read more

Fear, an emotion often only tenuously tethered to reality, arises from the belief that danger is near, whether it really is or not, and can be created and manipulated by those in power. Fear of terrorism is a case in point. Since the tragic atta...   read more

When state and local governments give tax breaks and other financial incentives to private corporations as a way to induce them to locate their facilities nearby, the intent is to create new jobs for local residents. Too often, however, companie...   read more

American high school students prefer marijuana to cigarettes, according to a report released June 8 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. CDC, an operating division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service...   read more

General Raymond T. Odierno has served as the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army since September 7, 2011. As such, he has been a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a council of senior uniformed officers in the Defense Department who advise the Sec...   read more