The DC Circuit Court of Appeals invalidated two LNG export permits that were already issued, imperiling other clean energy projects.
Federal funds pay for affordable housing in Boston, Massachusetts, though that housing has serious safety deficiencies.
Appalachia can no longer attract big factories, but small businesses can thrive without subsidized boondoggles that pass for competition.
ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) has a critical problem with medical care for detainees, many of whom die of negligence.
Mark Zuckerberg recently confessed to a program of censorship on Facebook. But that program remains, and he hasn't lifted it.
FEMA (the Federal Emergency Management Agency) actually has money it can't or won't spend, which could address its budget deficit.
Consolidation has produced a relative handful of companies that control vast food brands and chains. Mass media consolidation is similar.
The Chicago Police Department has never gotten a handle on misconduct by its own officers that costs millions in court judgments.
Policymakers now confront a stark reality - they were never going to make dispatchable generation (power plants) obsolete.
In 2010 the federal government spent a million dollars putting poems up for zoo visitors to read in five big-city zoos.