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

More than 65 years after the end of World War II, Germany’s national railway, Deutsche Bahn, has hired an American law firm and a PR agency to lobby against legislation now before Congress that would allow Holocaust survivors to sue European railr...   read more

The landlocked nation of Mongolia, sandwiched between Russia and China, has long been one of the most remote and least developed places in the world. Its progress toward democracy and economic development since the end of the Cold War will likely ...   read more

A first-of-its-kind study examining the movements of public housing residents into other city neighborhoods shows crime may follow them wherever they go if they relocate in large numbers.   After reviewing crime statistics in Chicago from 2000 t...   read more

Even the U.S. penny has a lobby, which helps explain why the costly currency is still around.   Some people in Washington want to do away with the one-cent coin, due to its costs of manufacturing. For every penny produced by the U.S. Mint, the g...   read more

Regardless of how the U.S. government wants them to self-identify, the vast majority of “Hispanics” or “Latinos” shun generalized ethnic categories, according to a new survey.   The Pew Hispanic Center found that 51% of Hispanic adults identify ...   read more

Rocked by the forced resignations of its past two administrators, the General Services Administration (GSA), which serves as the federal government’s lead acquisition agency, has a new administrator in Daniel M. Tangherlini, who is promising to ri...   read more

A career member of the Senior Foreign Service who has served before in Nepal and in neighboring India has been nominated by President Obama to be the next ambassador to Nepal. Peter W. Bodde was nominated on March 2, 2012, and is expected to be co...   read more

For those paying income taxes later this month and wondering just what their money goes toward, here is a breakdown of how the U.S. government spends it.   One quarter of all income taxes are consumed by national defense, which represents the la...   read more

The Obama administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has swept up significantly more adults whose children were born in the U.S., potentially breaking up thousands of families.   In just one six-month span last year (January to June), Imm...   read more

New Orleans police officers convicted of shooting multiple people on the Danziger Bridge during the post-Katrina chaos face spending the rest of their lives in prison.   Federal Judge Kurt Engelhardt handed down stiff sentences on five former po...   read more

Less than five months after campus police at the University of California, Davis pepper-sprayed non-violent protesting students, controversy over the use of pepper spray by campus police has erupted again in California.   At least one officer at...   read more

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) last week forced the closure of two non-governmental organizations that promote democracy, mirroring the actions last year of the military-led government in Egypt against the same NGOs.   The first NGO shut down wa...   read more

Between industry and the military, more than 200 million pounds of toxic pollutants are dumped each year into American waterways, but one corporation takes two of the top three spots of biggest polluters.   According to the Environment America R...   read more

Florida state law has trumped common sense as the Republican Party prepares for its national convention in Tampa later this year.   In developing security measures for the August 27-30 event, city officials have prohibited protesters from carryi...   read more

Republican Terence F. Flynn has been on the job at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for only three months, and already President Barack Obama may be regretting his decision to appoint the Republican advisor.   Selected in January to ser...   read more

The state of Arkansas cannot criminalize sex between consenting adults, even if one is a teacher and another an 18-year-old student, ruled the state’s Supreme Court last week.   The case evolved from the conviction of David Paschal, 38, a histor...   read more