President Donald Trump has repeatedly expressed outrage to aides because there have been no violent mass street demonstrations against his statements and policies. He believes he needs violent demonstrations against him in order to declare a national state of emergency that would allow him to do anything he wants.   read more

Update: See link to NRC response below.   The holidays are a time of celebration for Americans, and a perfect time for their government to bury controversial changes in policy.   That’s what apparently happened last December when the Nuclear R...   read more

In what some are calling the “Shareholder Spring,” the owners of large corporations and banks are letting CEOs know that they’re getting paid too much compensation through so-called Say-on-Pay votes.   It’s a battle of shareholders, or the top 1...   read more

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Prolonged unemployment for older Americans has become a serious problem with both immediate and long-term consequences.   As of December 2011, approximately 3.65 million older Americans were unemployed or underemployed. For workers age 50 and ol...   read more

The 2012 election is shaping up to be ugly, with considerably more negative advertisements than the election four years ago. It’s no surprise that campaigns are relying more on attack ads, for the simple reason that research shows going negative i...   read more

The Small Business Administration (SBA), which has nothing to do with regulating harmful chemicals, has sided with large manufacturers opposing the government’s listing of formaldehyde as a carcinogen.   Within the SBA is the Office of Advocacy,...   read more

When the Obama administration ran interference and helped to get a huge legal case settled against the nation’s largest banks over mortgage fraud and improper foreclosures, more than $2 billion in cash was sent to the states to help struggling hom...   read more

Norman and Oriane Rousseau’s American dream of owning a home turned into a tragic nightmare involving Wells Fargo.   In 2000, the Rousseaus purchased a home in Newbury Park, California, putting down 30%—their life savings. Six years later, they ...   read more

Three decades after the wrongful execution of Carlos DeLuna, the Columbia Human Rights Law Review (HRLR) has devoted its entire spring issue to evidence proving the 26-year-old was not guilty of the crime of which he was accused.   In February 1...   read more

Raymond Gilmartin’s landing was a soft one after leaving behind an embattled Merck. The one-time top executive of the leading pharmaceutical company, which was engulfed in the Vioxx controversy last decade, splits his time these days between teach...   read more

Crime is down in Louisiana, but the state still holds the ignominious title of “the world’s prison capital.”   An exposé by the New Orleans Times-Picayune found that Louisiana incarcerates more people per capita than any other state or country i...   read more

One of the nation’s leading business lawyers has decided to take on the filibuster and get it outlawed.   Emmet Bondurant, selected Lawyer of the Year for Antitrust and Bet-the-Company Litigation in 2010, has proposed that the U.S. Supreme Court...   read more

Two U.S. defense contractors have lost their appeal in federal court and must continue to fight multiple lawsuits accusing their employees of helping torture Iraqis at Abu Ghraib prison and at other locations during the war.   The two companies,...   read more

Taking news sources at their word resulted in a highly controversial, but false, story being spread all over the Internet three weeks ago about Egyptian lawmakers legalizing necrophilia.   The rumor apparently began with columnist Amr Abdel Sami...   read more

The self-styled “Masters of the Universe” have done it again. Just three-and-a-half years after Wall Street’s best and brightest lost billions of dollars on bad bets and crashed the global economy, mega-bank JPMorgan Chase lost more than $2 billio...   read more

Even with First Lady Michelle Obama pushing hard for healthier food choices for children, Washington has failed in key battles against the processed food industry, according to a special report from Reuters.   The news wire service reviewed fede...   read more