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

Five years ago, Joseph Insinga blew the whistle on his employer, telling the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that it was helping numerous companies avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes.   Insinga figured he deserved a reward for his actions,...   read more

With all the accusations of voter fraud Republicans have made against Democrats in recent years, it is easy to forget that it is actually the Republican Party that has been under court-ordered monitoring for potential race-based voter fraud for th...   read more

Airports fed up with the work of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) can now opt out of using government screeners in favor of private contractors, under a new law passed by Congress last month.   Officially, airports have had the a...   read more

Officially called the Utah Data Center, the enormous facility under construction will eventually house one million square feet of computers. Its mission will be to intercept, decipher, analyze and store large volumes of communications collected by...   read more

The answer to the question in the headline, of course, is money, and quite a lot of it. Although exact amounts are unknown, the Iranian dissident group Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) (People’s Mujahedin of Iran)–which the State Department has designated ...   read more

An entomologist whose views of agriculture have been powerfully influenced by memories of famine in his native India has been nominated by President Obama to be the next Administrator of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). Part ...   read more

Two men languishing in Yemeni prisons–one of them an American citizen–have the Obama Administration to thank for their continued incarceration on what critics say are dubious charges related to the so-called war on terror. Now the American, Sharif...   read more

Although the Taser™ was invented to give law enforcement a non-lethal alternative to the handgun for subduing uncooperative or even violent suspects, more than 500 Americans have been killed by Tasers since their use began to take off in 2001, whi...   read more

The Florida legislature decided last week to cut funding for the state’s public universities by $300 million next year–even as it agreed to spend money on one powerful member’s plan to establish a new university in his home county. Such cuts are n...   read more

The North African nation of Libya, whose successful revolution against long-time dictator Muammar Gadhafi is currently threatened by militia violence and regional separatism, will soon have a new US ambassador with extensive personal experience in...   read more

The Caribbean nation of Haiti, which is still suffering from the effects of the January 2010 earthquake that killed more than 300,000 people, will soon have a new ambassador with extensive experience in economic development. Pamela A. White, who p...   read more

People living on only a few dollars a day are supposed to dwell in developing countries, not wealthy ones like the United States. But a new report says millions of Americans struggle to get by on less than $2 per day.   The University of Michiga...   read more

Bain Capital, the private equity firm that Mitt Romney helped found, is playing a major role in China’s effort to spy on its citizens.   Uniview Technologies, a Chinese company owned by Bain, has provided surveillance cameras to the government f...   read more

It has been commonly assumed for a long time that the wealthy live longer than the poor. Now, some explanations are offered for why this might be true.   Education plays a critical role in the rich lasting longer. The better educated tend to liv...   read more

A former elementary school teacher has been nominated by President Obama to be the next Assistant Secretary of Education for Elementary and Secondary Education. Deborah S. Delisle, who has stated her “firm belief that a zip code should never prede...   read more

The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which is the research arm of the Department of Labor and the principal fact-finding organization for the Federal Government in the field of labor economics, has a new leader in the pipeline, an experienced labor eco...   read more