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

A storm of controversy has surrounded the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for accusing people in Greece of not paying their taxes, while she’s avoided taxation on her own lucrative salary.   IMF chief Christine Lagarde said in an i...   read more

When it comes to authorizing the killing of terrorists, including American citizens by U.S. forces, the buck really does stop with President Barack Obama.   John Brennan, Obama’s counter-terrorism chief, has been portrayed recently as the one-ma...   read more

Congress giveth and Congress taketh away when it comes to extending unemployment benefits for those hit hardest by the Great Recession.   Lawmakers in February approved another extension for states’ unemployment programs drained by the long-term...   read more

Two homeowners in Arizona are suing the state for trying to divert money from the nationwide foreclosure settlement for uses other than helping struggling mortgage holders.   Forty-eight states and the federal government sued five national banks...   read more

With America’s prison population getting grayer by the year, the question arises: Should the U.S. continue to incarcerate inmates in their sixties, seventies and older?   Over the past two decades, the percentage of older prisoners has increased...   read more

Using the latest in acoustic and computer technology, city police departments can now be alerted to shootings in their communities within minutes, thanks to a service provided by a company located thousands of miles away.   Based in Mountain Vie...   read more

For the second consecutive election, the Obama administration has touted efforts to arrest illegal immigrants with criminal records.   Six months before voters decide whether to grant President Barack Obama a second term, the Immigration and Cus...   read more

While conducting an arraignment recently for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the federal government willingly published the court’s transcript for the public to review. Such openness h...   read more

America’s wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have produced a record number of veterans seeking disability benefits from the federal government.   About 45% of the 1.6 million men and women who served in the two wars have filed claims with the Departme...   read more

After only four months on the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), Republican appointee Terence F. Flynn resigned over the weekend after an internal investigation found he had leaked documents to GOP colleagues. The NLRB is supposed to ensure th...   read more

With no parents around and two siblings to support, 17-year-old high school student Diane Tran of Houston, Texas, has had to work two jobs while taking college prep classes. For all her work and dedication Tran recently found herself spending a ni...   read more

“We don’t need the tanks,” was the message delivered to Congress in March by Army Chief of Staff General Raymond Odierno and Army Secretary John McHugh, who were criticizing calls to force the Army to spend more than it proposed on the M1A2, the w...   read more

While state governments continue to cut funding for community colleges, the federal government has helped for-profit universities grow and prosper.   In recent years, federally guaranteed student loans to students attending private “proprietary ...   read more

Despite official policies supposedly excluding women in the military from combat, more than “800 women have been wounded and over 130 women have died” in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court in the Distri...   read more

Fifty million Americans lack health insurance, a substantial portion of the U.S. population. But an even larger number of Americans have no dental insurance—130 million.   For many the problem stems from the fact that many employers don’t pay fo...   read more

Upon the retirement of Melvin W. Russell, who served as acting director of the Defense Media Activity (DMA) from October 2009 until April 30, 2012, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Bryan G. Whitman was appointed a...   read more