In 1982, the U.S. Department of Agriculture actually studied the link between food preferences and personality and social identity.
Edwin Denson, manager of the Wisconsin pension fund, draws an annual salary of $1.2 million - eight times what the governor makes.
The Washington, D.C. Metro will be short $750 million and will likely ask the city government, and Virginia and Maryland, for support.
A $42 billion program for broadband internet, ostensibly for underserved areas, is going instead to wealthy areas.
In 1981 the U.S. Army spent $10,000 (worth over $20,000 today) on figuring out how to buy a bottle of: Worcestershire sauce.
As Congress dithers on whether to raise the debt ceiling, Republicans are demanding deeper cuts as their price for raising it—or so they say. Meanwhile, no...