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

It won’t be long before those married in the United States constitute less than a majority of all adults.   Today, barely more than half of all adults (51%) are married, according to the Pew Research Center. This rate is the lowest on record, as...   read more

Saying there’s no point wasting money to make money, the Obama administration has decided to cancel production of commemorative presidential one dollar coins as part of its efforts to reduce government spending.   The U.S Mint is expected to sav...   read more

There’s the “One Percent,” and then there’s the “One Percent of the One Percent” when talking about campaign fundraising.   American elections these days are funded to a significant degree by a relatively small group of wealthy individuals, acco...   read more

In a battle of corporate food titans, some of the United States’ largest egg suppliers are being sued by national food companies over claims of anti-trust activity. The plaintiffs are Kraft Foods, Kellogg, General Mills and Nestlé, while the defen...   read more

Thanks in part to its “wildly unpopular” debit-card fee idea, Bank of America now ranks last among major banks for customer satisfaction.   BofA’s score of 68 (on a scale of 0 to 100) put it dead last among major banks, according to The American...   read more

The Obama administration’s aggressive deportation program has resulted in a growing number of U.S. citizens being detained by authorities.   Americans arrested have gotten caught up in the controversial Secure Communities program, which checks t...   read more

Dorli Rainey of Seattle, Washington, and Ruthelle Frank of Brokaw, Wisconsin, have something unusual in common—each, at the age of 84, suffered at the hands of their government for trying to practice their constitutional rights.   Rainey is the ...   read more

Ohio is not exactly earthquake country, and yet the area near Youngstown has been struck nine times in eight months by seismic activity.   Critics of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, used to capture underground supplies of natural gas blame it...   read more

The United States’ use of lethal injection is itself in danger of dying, as American officials continue to struggle to find new supplies of a key drug used for executions.   For most of this year, officials from various states have tried to impo...   read more

The Obama administration is proposing tougher child labor rules for farming and that has angered agricultural groups and their Republican supporters.   The regulations, developed by the Department of Labor, would restrict the ability of farm wor...   read more

Here’s a problem most Americans probably weren’t worried about. In an effort to show the U.S. public they’re serious about getting tough on the rich, Republicans in Congress are proposing to end food stamps for millionaires.   But the plan immed...   read more

Voters in Florida overwhelmingly (81% to 19%) approved a constitutional amendment seven years ago that gave victims of medical malpractice the authority to see reports on their own case or on other mistakes made by the same doctors who had treated...   read more

Coined nearly 20 years ago, the term “disease mongering” is still applicable today for what the pharmaceutical industry is doing to promote its blockbuster drugs among America’s “sick.”   In her book Disease-Mongers: How Doctors, Drug Companies,...   read more

The obsession with using unmanned aircraft in warfare has now shifted to the home front, where the federal government and local law enforcement are now using drones to catch criminals.   The first known drone-aided arrest took place in eastern N...   read more

Letting go of earmarks is one of the hardest things to do for U.S. House members.   The office of Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) contends in a new report that both Republicans and Democrats stuffed a major defense appropriations bill with...   read more

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) top appointee is facing accusations from his fellow commissioners regarding his behavior, while the agency debates new—and controversial—safety reforms for the industry.   Four NRC commissioners, two Dem...   read more