What has happened to the foreign service and the State Dept. under Rubio and Trump? Prior presidents have often sidelined it—but what are Rubio and Trump doing to further nullify its contributions? How many have left or been fired? How many ambassadorships are still open? Who knows what else an investigation will discover?

-Trump, always looking to distract attention from his many crimes, has deployed National Guard troops and federal law enforcement officials in Washington, D.C. To be sure, there ARE two grave and deadly ongoing crime waves in D.C. One is clearly the violence surging from Trump’s White House, with big weapons and big tax dollars to…

What ever happened to all those Israeli government investigations that were announced when the press asked them about the various egregious slaughtering of innocent families and children in Gaza? Each time one of these mass slaughters occurs, the Israeli government cools off the press and announces an investigation. There are so many of these over…

-As a serious newspaper reader, I’m looking for stories about how smaller businesses who rely on undocumented workers for the manual labor American workers do no relish are surviving. ICE agents are entering these workplaces and chasing away or apprehending these migrant workers. About half of of the workers in the Texas construction industry are…

Unless the major newspaper reporters—NYT, WaPo, WSJ, LA Times, AP, etc.— dig into the corporate conflicted consultants to whom the Democratic Party contracts out its campaigns, from fundraising to strategies to blocking access to campaigns from civic groups, they will not inform their readers about one of the most fundamental reasons why the party produces…

There has been much coverage by the media of Elon Musk’s so-called “government efficiency department.” In reality, it is a proposed federal advisory committee, not a department. The press dutifully notes the areas where Musk wants to cut, but they ignore the areas Musk doesn’t want to mention that are huge sources of government fraud,…