Rumors are spreading that the U.S. Supreme Court will vote 5-4 to rule that a U.S. president cannot be prosecuted for anything he does while he is president. Some Democrats are suggesting that Joe Biden bring a gun to his first debate with Donald Trump. If he shoots Trump, he would be immune, but if Trump shoots Biden he would be prosecuted because he is not a sitting president.   read more

A legal battle against the tobacco industry that began a decade ago is almost over now that a federal appellate court has upheld the landmark ruling from 2006 that ruled cigarette makers had violated federal racketeering laws in an effort to decei...   read more

The United States is fast reaching a crisis point as federal, state and local law enforcement falls further and further behind in processing a backlog of now 350,000 DNA samples for cases involving murder or rape, according to an investigation by ...   read more

Despite the brutality of his crime and lack of remorse, former Army private Steven D. Green avoided receiving the death penalty for raping and murdering a 14-year-old Iraqi girl and killing members of her family in 2006. The first soldier to be co...   read more

“Democratized intelligence” is helping uncover the secretive world of North Korea, one of the world’s most hidden societies, thanks to economist Curtis Melvin. Through his blog, North Korean Economy Watch, Melvin has used the power of Google Earth...   read more

Following the fatal shooting of five U.S. service members at a counseling center in Baghdad earlier this month, the need to encourage more soldiers to seek mental care has taken on new urgency. However, a military culture that values strength and ...   read more

A recent study by the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that Americans in the lowest income bracket give the most to charity in proportion to their income, donating about 4.3%, compared to the 2% to 3% of all other income brackets. Several expla...   read more

No more pencils, no more books. And no more jobs. May and June are usually months of celebration and enthusiasm for college graduates as they complete their degrees and move into the job world. Only this year employment opportunities are way down ...   read more

Forty-eight members of Congress have asked Office of Budget and Management director Peter Orszag to count same-sex couples as “married” in the 2010 Census, rather than as “unmarried partners.”The last time a census was held in 2000, there were no ...   read more

The U.S. government has committed itself to allocating almost one quarter of all federal contracts to small businesses, but when it comes to stimulus funds, these businesses have received only 10% of monies distributed so far. That has amounted to...   read more

“What’s the point?” was essentially the conclusion reached by a joint American-Russian team of scientists who reviewed U.S. plans to build a missile shield in Eastern Europe. According to the Bush administration, which advocated for the missile de...   read more

President Barack Obama is fooling no one, on the right or left, with his claims of steering a new national security course that differs from his predecessor, writes Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer. The changes Obama has implemented s...   read more

With the war in Afghanistan, President Barack Obama and his advisors are at risk of falling into the same “process of self-hypnosis” that earlier administrations fell into when Vietnam was a burgeoning conflict based on the strategy of counterinsu...   read more

One day before President Barack Obama and former Vice-President Dick Cheney gave dueling speeches criticizing each other’s national security policies, the Obama administration supported Cheney in a lawsuit filed against him by former CIA agent Val...   read more

Lost among the news on Wednesday of the Senate’s rejection of President Barack Obama’s plan to close down the prison at Guantánamo Bay was a federal court ruling that said the government can continue to hold certain terrorism suspects indefinitely...   read more

It has been five years since Massachusetts decided to legalize same-sex marriages, and the decision has proven to be a smart one from an economic standpoint, argues The Williams Institute at UCLA. According to two studies produced by the institute...   read more

After forty years of running Libya as a harshly anti-Western dictatorship, Libya’s leader, Muammar al-Qaddafi has discovered that the United States and other developed nations are willing to turn a blind eye to his continued human rights violation...   read more