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

Although Bernard Madoff has become the poster child of the collapse, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) carries a heavy share in the responsibility for ignoring Madoff’s impossibly consistent returns; they even ignored years of warnings ...   read more

Unequivocally hawkish Jewish organizations like the American Jewish Committee and the Zionist Organization of America no longer stand alone as the single pro-Israel school of thought in America. A rising tide of moderate Jewish voices has reacted ...   read more

A coalition of 110 animal rights and conservation groups including Big Wildlife, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Christians for Environmental Stewardship signed a letter (PDF) to Tom Vilsack, Barack Obama’s pick for Secretary of Agricultu...   read more

As Barack Obama contemplates what steps he will take to revive the economy, the Congressional Progressive Caucus (CPC) has just released its own $1 Trillion recovery package. Katrina Vanden Heuvel advocates immediate passage of the plan, writing i...   read more

Bill Richardson’s 30-year career in politics has included several controversies, including “pay to play” allegations that forced him to withdraw his nomination for Secretary of Commerce.   Born William Blaine “Bill” Richardson III on November 15...   read more

For eight years, the leaders of the administration of George W. Bush used a clever and effective tactic to mold the mission of the U.S. government to match their version of conservative ideology. Instead of eliminating an agency they opposed, they...   read more

The argument in support of Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s $700 billion Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP), that qualified borrowers no longer have access to credit, has been discredited by recent reports from the likes of The Federal Reserv...   read more

Regarding an issue that made it all the way to U.S. Supreme Court, the Navy and environmental groups settled out of court a case dealing with the potential harm done to whales and dolphins by sonar used in anti-submarine warfare training. The Navy...   read more

Richard J. Leon is a George Bush-appointed federal judge who is increasingly finding himself at the heart of cases relating to the extent of executive power. Leon has a long association with the Republican Party. In 1987-1988 he served as deputy c...   read more

The highest ranking Asian-American in US military history, Eric K. Shinseki became a visible critic of the Bush administration’s force plan for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, correctly forewarning a problem that would haunt American military planne...   read more

In selecting former Republican Congressman Ray LaHood for Secretary of Transportation, Barack Obama fulfilled his promise to make his cabinet bipartisan. The centrist GOP lawmaker was not above the partisan fray, however, when it came to Bill Clin...   read more

Barack Obama’s choice for US Trade Representative is Ron Kirk, one-time mayor of Dallas and a former lobbyist and a key supporter of Obama’s in Texas during the presidential race.   The youngest of four children, Kirk was born in Austin, TX, on ...   read more

Fearing that President George W. Bush might go down in history as anything less than “the worst ever,” Robert Parry of ConsortiumNews attacks the Bush administration’s attempt to defend the efficacy of torture and the triumph of the 2007 surge in ...   read more

Laissez-faire economist Thomas Sowell of Stanford University warns the incoming administration of the dangers of a new New Deal. Contradicting the conventional story of how FDR saved the economy after everyone lost their jobs because of the stock ...   read more

Shirley Graham, one of the election judges working on the still disputed Minnesota senatorial contest between Democrat Al Franken and Republican Norm Coleman, was surprised to learn that her own absentee ballot had been rejected. The Coleman camp ...   read more

Tom Daschle, a 26-year veteran of Capitol Hill, is not only Barack Obama’s choice for Secretary of Health and Human Services, but also the man to run the president’s new White House Office of Health Reform. In this capacity, Daschle is expected to...   read more