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 federal government is being sued by multiple Vietnam veterans’ organizations for allegedly classifying ex-soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) with “personality disorder” instead. PTSD is covered by health care benefit...   read more

Major felony crimes went up slightly this year in New York City. But Mayor Michael Bloomberg begs to differ.   At a news conference this week, Bloomberg claimed violent felonies have gone down 21 years in a row, including 2011. The mayor believe...   read more

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), which is the largest uniformed, federal law enforcement agency in the country, has a new leader. David V. Aguilar, who has worked on border enforcement for more than thirty-three years, has been named CBP ...   read more

1. Iceland Ranked World’s Most Peaceful Nation, Somalia Worst; U.S. Improves to 82nd The United States placed 82nd in the ranking, behind Gabon and just ahead of Bangladesh. According to the Institute, “If the U.S. moderately reduced its violence...   read more

Security forces in Egypt this week raided the offices of at least six non-governmental organizations and confined their staffs at gunpoint while police searched through files and computers.   Three of the NGOs were American-based: Freedom House;...   read more

Following the stock market troubles of 2008, corporations handed out generous stock options to their executives that are now proving a great tax advantage for the businesses.   Federal tax law allows the companies to claim a tax deduction in fut...   read more

As telecom analyst Bruce Kushnick sees it, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is catering to the demands of companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast.   “There has been a series of recent events in telecom, broadband, Internet–cable, wir...   read more

Charles E. Samuels, Jr., appointed director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP) by Attorney General Eric Holder on December 21, 2011, started at the bottom as a correctional officer (prison guard) more than 23 years ago.   Born circa 1965 in ...   read more

The presence of U.S. soldiers in Iraq may have dwindled, but American-made weaponry will still be quite visible, and in use, there for a long time to come.   The Obama administration is planning to sell nearly $11 billion in arms and training to...   read more

At the end of each year, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) prepares to offer a collective analysis of all the federal government’s financial statements. But this year the GAO said it cannot do so because, among other things, the Departmen...   read more

Tucson, Arizona’s 13-year-old Mexican-American studies program has been deemed illegal by an administrative law judge who ruled that it violated a new state law designed to eliminate ethnic studies in public schools.   In issuing his decision, J...   read more

Regardless of how many people are unemployed or lack health insurance, Republican Governor Nikki Haley believes the state government should express a rosy outlook on South Carolina. That’s why civil servants have been under orders since September ...   read more

The controversy stemming from boxer Juan Manuel Márquez’s trunks continues in Mexico.   During his title fight on November 12 in Las Vegas against Manny Pacquiao, Márquez wore the logo of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) on his boxing...   read more

Having succeeded a president who relied on secrecy to thwart terrorism, Barack Obama has himself established a clandestine and “extensive apparatus” to hunt down and assassinate terror suspects across the globe.   Whereas George W. Bush’s war-on...   read more

With months of winter still to come, lawmakers in Washington decided to slash federal support for home heating bills by 25%, provoking criticism from politicians of both parties in the Northeast.   Funding for the Low Income Home Energy Assistan...   read more

In city after city, ample evidence exists of the need for housing assistance in the United States. But as far as Congress is concerned, the problem simply doesn’t require funding.   Federal housing officials estimate that “worst-case housing nee...   read more