Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) sent messages to all members of Congress terminating their positions, stating “Your performance has not been adequate to justify further employment.” All Democratic and independent members of Congress, as well as two Republicans, found themselves locked out of their offices after everything inside had been confiscated.   read more

Their appearance was fleeting but nonetheless memorable as far as the small Arkansas town of Walnut Ridge is concerned.   On September 18, 1964, the Beatles landed unannounced at an old World War II air base outside the sleepy town so that Joh...   read more

In January 2011, President Barack Obama appointed Martin R. Castro as Chairman of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), and on March 11 he was approved by the Commission. The USCCR is an independent federal agency that addresses civil rig...   read more

Igor Munteanu, a political analyst and journalist, has served as Moldova’s ambassador to the United States since August 2010. He has also served as ambassador to Canada since February 2011.   Born August 10, 1965, in Costuleni, Ungheni, Muntea...   read more

More than 25% of federal lawmakers deemed “most corrupt” by a government watchdog group are brand new to Congress.   “The 2010 midterm elections swept in a large freshman class,” noted the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (...   read more

The duty of keeping secrets in the U.S. government does not belong to a small cadre of officials or military leaders. Rather, more than 4.2 million people have security clearances for access to classified information—a figure that’s far larger t...   read more

No program is too small for House Republicans to go after, especially ones encouraging young people to learn about environmental protection.   Representative Mike Pompeo, who represents the Kansas district that is the headquarters for the GOP-...   read more

Citizens United may have been bad for keeping the cost of elections down, but it may prove to be a boon for campaign transparency.   Since the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 5-4 decision in January 2010, deep-pocketed interests have been free t...   read more

Even death can’t stop the multi-million dollar enrichment of those related to CEOs.   For many of America’s top business leaders, the wealth of perks enjoyed include “golden coffin” arrangements that pay out tens-of-millions in benefits to fam...   read more

The Al-Jazeera news network, branded a critic of American foreign policy in the Middle East, modified its coverage of the Iraq war in order to appease concerns raised by the Bush administration, according to classified U.S. information published b...   read more

If the United States wants to extricate itself from Afghanistan, it needs to figure out a way for Afghans to pay for their own government.   Right now Kabul is not even remotely close to covering the cost of running the country.   The U.S. a...   read more

The awarding of the Medal of Honor to Dakota Meyer has raised the issue of why the former U.S. Marine was given the nation’s highest honor while others who participated in the same gallantry did not.   On September 8, 2009, Afghan soldiers and...   read more

The U.S. Department of Justice paid what might be considered unlawful prices for food at agency conferences over a two-year period, according to the department’s inspector general.   After reviewing food arrangements from 2007 to 2009, the IG co...   read more

  “Since the first day of his Administration, President Barack Obama has made Open Government a high priority.” Thus begins the latest product of the Obama administration’s effort at transparency—an opening sentence of a report that was unveile...   read more

The Obama administration, which supports the end of global warming, has embraced a petroleum project that would help produce oil so bad for the planet that the oil-friendly administration of George W. Bush outlawed its use in the United States. ...   read more

The lone 9/11 family that has held out for 10 years in order to have its day in court has decided after all to settle before going to trial.   The survivors of Mark Bavis say they had no choice.   Mike Bavis, twin brother of the pro hockey s...   read more

Jennie Linn McCormack of Idaho is suing a local prosecutor for trying to convict her for using the morning-after pill to terminate her pregnancy.   McCormack, a single mother of three children, ended her pregnancy after she purchased FDA-appro...   read more