An old saying advises against “looking a gift-horse in the mouth.” Another says, “Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” At least as of mid-Ju...

On June 29, 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal president has the authority to terminate the employment of heads of independ...

On March 8, 2026, The Associated Press reported on the voting in Columbia that took place that day “for a new Congress and to select candida...

Systemic corruption means not only that a department or agency has an organizational culture that allows for and may even laud corruption, b...

Humanity still has not come to a consensus on what are entailed specifically within the rubric of human rights. Even in terms of those speci...

As the chief executive of the U.S. Government, the president is tasked with executing the law—the passage thereof involving both the Congres...

That it should go without saying that a constitution providing a government with its basic framework and procedures should not contain any c...

In Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court on June 28, 2024, a majority of the justices overruled Chevro...

In the E.U., the state governments and federal institutions can ask the European Court of Justice (the ECJ) for an opinion on a legal matter...

Turkey invaded Syria on October 9, 2019 “to flush Kurds allied with the US out of northeastern Syria.” [1] Strategically, Turkey wanted ...

That financial deregulation had any traction at all following the financial crisis of 2008 in the U.S. is stunning, for the implication is...

Ambition checked by ambition. The assumption that political ambition can be counted on is the key to the “checks and balances” feature of t...

After a misfiring-prone automatic stall-prevention device on the 737 MAX jet had caused two accidents in which 346 people died, an internal...

The Financial Times reported in 2013 that lawmakers in the U.S. Congress were claiming that the Department of Justice had been “too soft on...

It is interesting that the U.S. Department of Justice did not pursue the fraudulent bankers on Wall Street not only during the Bush presid...

A company in the U.S. wants a tax loophole to apply. Starbucks , for example, wanted to be able to use the manufacturing deduction by str...

In December 2009, Abdullah II, King of Jordon, dismissed the prime minister and replaced him with a palace aide and loyalist, dissolved Par...

On March 24, 2019, U.S. Attorney General William Barr sent to Congress his summary of Robert Mueller's report on whether President Don...

U.S. President Trump announced in February of 2019 that he would fully fund a wall on the U.S.’s southern border. He would first use the $1...

According to Rodell Molineau, executive director of the Democratic super PAC American Bridge in 2012, "The meta-lesson from [the 20...