Facing a tight withdrawal deadline and tough terrain, the U.S. military has destroyed more than 170 million pounds worth of vehicles and other military equipment instead of moving it as it prepares to leave Afghanistan.
Three U.S. Naval Academy Wednesday football players were charged Wednesday with raping a female midshipman and making false statements in the latest sexual assault scandal to roil the elite service academy.
Carl Malamud is suing the IRS over a problem you probably haven’t heard about: the agency’s unwillingness to let the rest of us easily scrutinize nonprofits.
Citing planetary defense, the administration has decided that the search for killer rocks in space should be the latest in a series of “Grand Challenges,” in which the government sets an ambitious goal, helps create public-private partnerships and sometimes offers prize money for innovative ideas.
On March 12, 2004, acting attorney general James B. Comey and the Justice Department’s leadership reached the brink of resignation over electronic surveillance orders that they believed to be illegal. President George W. Bush backed down, halting secret foreign-intelligence-gathering operations that crossed into domestic terrain. That morning marked the beginning of the end of STELLARWIND.
The United States puts more children and teenagers in juvenile detention than any other developed nations in the world, with about 130,000 detained in 2010. And as it turns out, this is very likely a bad idea.
Computer programmers believe they know how to build cryptographic systems that are impossible for anyone, even the U.S. government, to crack. So why can the NSA read your e-mail?
The news that just 10 percent of Americans approve of how Congress is handling its job reminded us of one of our favorite charts — ever.
When President Obama makes his first extended trip to sub-Saharan Africa this month, the federal agencies charged with keeping him safe won’t be taking any chances.
“The music industry is a microcosm of what is happening in the U.S. economy at large,” says Alan Krueger, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers. “We are increasingly becoming a ‘winner-take-all economy,’ a phenomenon that the music industry has long experienced."
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