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

The Department of Defense has allowed companies to obtain contracts intended for disabled-veteran owned businesses by doing little more than check boxes on a form, thanks to a self-verify system that provides no accountability.   The Pentagon’s ...   read more

A federal appellate court has ruled that two Secret Service agents must face charges for violating the free speech rights of protesters by engaging in “viewpoint discrimination” during the administration of President George W. Bush.   On October...   read more

Although the current U.S. Supreme Court has the reputation of being pro-business, corporations would be wise not to press their luck with the high court when it comes to tax fraud. Two university law professors found that, historically, businesses...   read more

Dr. Robert M. Groves announced on Tuesday that he was resigning his position as director of the U.S. Census Bureau in order to take over as provost of Georgetown University. “I’m an academic at heart,” Groves told The Washington Post. He will leav...   read more

At a time when 12.7 million unemployed Americans are in need of jobs, the U.S. government is spending less on job training than it did during better economic times.   Federal funding for the “primary training program for dislocated workers,” acc...   read more

No one can say the U.S. hasn’t been generous towards Israel since it was founded in 1948.   Over a period of 64 years (including the 2013 budget request), the U.S. has given Israel more than $115 billion in military and foreign aid, which averag...   read more

The U.S. military intends to conduct the trial of the alleged mastermind of the attack on USS Cole behind closed doors, much to consternation of news organizations.   The McClatchy Co., The Washington Post and The New York Times filed a legal pr...   read more

A leading contender for Egypt’s presidency who has run on an ultra-nationalist, anti-foreign platform has been disqualified from running because his mother reportedly is a U.S. citizen.   Authorities with the nation’s electoral commission said H...   read more

A new study from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy says the implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement resulted in an unhealthy diet shift for millions of Mexicans.   Since 1994, when NAFTA went into effect, Mexico’s ...   read more

Despite complaints on the Republican presidential campaign trail about President Obama’s alleged bias in favor of government spending, in fact his administration has actually seen a contraction in the size of government, which has slowed the natio...   read more

Government inspectors of poultry plants are objecting to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s solution for revamping a flawed food inspection system.   Instead of federal inspectors monitoring assembly lines for unhealthy chickens, the USDA want...   read more

Banks currently control 95% of the small business lending market. Now they are lobbying Congress to stop credit unions from cutting into the market.   At issue is S. 2231, the Credit Union Small Business Jobs Act, which would raise the cap on th...   read more

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) allowed its employees to earn more than $700 million in unauthorized overtime over the past two years. Postal workers received overtime without approval from supervisors totaling $294 million in 2010 and $423 million...   read more

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Inspector General’s Office, which is supposed to investigate wrongdoing and corruption within DHS, is itself under investigation by the FBI, with its chief investigator, Thomas Frost, and his deputy, John ...   read more

A nation’s infant mortality rate (IMR) has long been widely understood to be an excellent indicator, not only of infant health, but of a people’s health and general well-being as well. Thus it is sobering news to read, in a recent report prepared ...   read more

An alliance of eleven environmental advocacy groups—including Appalachian Voices, Physicians for Social Responsibility and the Sierra Club—sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last Thursday, alleging that the agency’s ongoing failure to ...   read more