Zelenskyy explained, “I told him that if he gave us the weapons we need and stopped supporting Putin, we would let him build Trump-branded hotels and other Trump-branded buildings in Ukraine’s ten largest cities, as well as Trump golf courses in the countryside. He was quite excited.”   read more

AmeriCorps became the center of media attention when the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act passed, tripling AmeriCorps’ size and allotting $5.7 billion in federal funding for the community service programs it provides. Few news sources noticed o...   read more

While most giants of the banking industry continue to slog their way through the sub-prime mortgage disaster, one bank is quietly succeeding with a clientele of poor people. The institution is Grameen Bank, which has set up a branch in New York Ci...   read more

U.S. military officials tried to blame the Taliban for the carnage in western Afghanistan earlier this week, only to have others in the Defense Department admit that American air strikes were at least partially responsible for the death of more th...   read more

The world of computer hacking and identity theft took on a new element recently when Virginia officials were told to pay a ransom in order to reclaim personal data and prescription records for millions of residents. The site of the break-in was th...   read more

This past Earth Day, April 22, senators from both ends of the political spectrum, including John Kerry (D- Massachusetts) and James M. Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), came together to support and present a bipartisan bill that would order the Environmental P...   read more

During the final week of George W. Bush’s presidency, the Defense Department’s inspector general issued a report exonerating a military public relations program that had drawn fire for trying to manipulate television and radio news coverage. At th...   read more

Sometimes it pays to study a bit of history before sending troops to a foreign land. The Bush administration learned this the hard way when they invaded Iraq without taking into account the fact that Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq had been in conflict...   read more

Whatever it is, you can get it on eBay, and that even applies to top-secret information on America’s missile defense system. A study sponsored by BT and Sims Lifecycle Services, and involving university researchers in the U.K., U.S. and Australia,...   read more

By late summer, it is possible that for the first time in American history, women will make up a majority of the labor force. When the recession began in December 2007, there were 138.2 million nonfarm payroll jobs, 48.7 percent were held by women...   read more

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s leadership during the Bush administration worked against its own staff when it came to policing Wall Street firms, according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office. Under former SEC Chairma...   read more

In an effort to boost auto sales, and supposedly to help the environment, Congress is moving towards a plan to subsidize consumers who want to trade in their gas hogs for more fuel efficient vehicles. If the measure as currently crafted becomes la...   read more

U.S. Army Lieutenant Ehren Watada has faced the possibility of court-martial and jail time ever since he publicly refused to deploy to Iraq in 2006. He was the first officer to buck the Bush administration’s war policy, which turned him into a her...   read more

The United States would be making a huge mistake if it adopted a universal health care system like that in Canada, argues Ed Feulner, president of The Heritage Foundation. There are numerous examples of why the Canadian model doesn’t work, demonst...   read more

Amid threats of doctors walking out on patients and protesters being hauled off by security, the Senate Finance Committee on Tuesday was the setting for heated arguments both for and against the creation of a government-run health care system for ...   read more

Not since perhaps the 1980s recession have so many news accounts surfaced about the homeless in America. As was the case then, today’s stories are filled with tales of working-class Americans—or at least those who were working before the economic ...   read more

Just how bad is the current economic recession? Never before has the federal government been the No. 1 source of revenue for state and local governments. But that has changed as of 2009. Between the steep drop in tax revenues and the generous allo...   read more