Planned Parenthood building in Houston, Texas

On January 28th, 2021, President Biden honored another of his campaign promises when he issued a presidential memorandum that rescinds his predecessor’s elimination of federal aid for any foreign health provider that performs or actively promotes abortion as a method of family planning. During the signing ceremony in the Oval... Read More »

US Congress dome closeup with sky and green trees in Washington DC, USA

One of President Biden’s executive orders issued in the first week of his administration is intended to “encourage \[federal worker] union organizing and collective bargaining” and to “protect, empower, and rebuild the career federal workforce.” During the Trump administration, three executive orders targeting federal unions were signed into law on... Read More »

Crowd of people walking street wearing masks

President Joe Biden’s Executive Order enacted during his first day in office, ‘Protecting the Federal Workforce and Requiring Mask-Wearing,' imposes a powerful mandate on all federal buildings, lands, and staff to wear masks. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) emphatically endorses mask-wearing to block the spread of COVID-19,... Read More »

Robinhood app

In a show of force made possible by social media and a Reddit forum, main street investors are turning against Wall Street hedge funds, beating them at their own game in what can only be described as 2021’s version of a David vs. Goliath pump and dump. There has been... Read More »

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend Batman Forever/R. McDonald Event on June 13, 1995 in New York City. (Patrick McMullan/Getty Images)

Ghislaine Maxwell has asked a New York judge to dismiss her pending criminal child sex case. Her legal team has filed several motions arguing for the dismissal. The British socialite and her lawyers cite several reasons the charges against her should be thrown out, with the most controversial being that... Read More »

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on climate change and green jobs, in the State Dining Room of the White House, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

President Biden’s ambitious Executive Order title says it all: “Ensuring the Future Is Made in All of America by All of America’s Workers.” The president’s new U.S.-focused order, created to engage Americans to spend their money on items made in the U.S., harkens to decades past, when “Made in the... Read More »

Federal Bureau of Investigation seal on the Headquarters Edgar Hoover FBI Building in Washington.

Earlier this month, an FBI anti-human trafficking operation led to the recovery of 33 missing children. The operation took place in Southern California and was dubbed “Operation Lost Angels.” The recovery of the children was the result of the work of more than two dozen agencies on the local, state,... Read More »

President Joe Biden signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, January 20, 2021.

As part of the raft of executive orders promulgated by the new president on his first day in office, President Biden signed the Executive Order On Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government. In Section 10, paragraph (c) of the order is the mention that... Read More »

President Joe Biden signs executive orders in the State Dining Room of the White House, Jan. 26, 2021, in Washington. Vice President Kamala Harris listens at left. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden's latest executive order tackles the issue of privately operated criminal detention facilities. In his memorandum, President Biden seeks to reform the nation's current incarceration system by eliminating the use of these privately owned detention centers. The memorandum explains in part, “To decrease incarceration levels, we must reduce profit-based incentives... Read More »

Feb. 7, 2012 file photo, a wax likeness of the renowned abolitionist and conductor of the Underground Railroad Harriet Ross Tubman is unveiled at the Presidents Gallery by Madame Tussauds in Washington

On the day before President Biden signed four new executive orders designed to promote racial equality, his administration also took steps to put a woman who did exactly that on the $20 bill. Her name is Harriet Tubman, and she will be the first Black person to ever appear on... Read More »

President Joe Biden delivers remarks to State Department staff, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci via US Embassy)

The Biden administration is taking a sharp 180-degree turn from the previous administration's dealings with regard to cultural sensitivity. On January 26th, Biden signed an executive order titled the Memorandum Condemning and Combating Racism, Xenophobia, and Intolerance against Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States. The previous administration did... Read More »

The World Health Organization

Joe Biden fulfilled yet another one of his campaign promises on day one as president when he announced the US would once again join the World Health Organization (WHO). In a fast reversal of former President Trump's abandonment of WHO, Biden signed an act and notified the non-profit organization that... Read More »

Rudy Giuliani

Rudolph Giuliani, the well-known Trump lawyer and former mayor of New York City, was sued by Dominion Voting Systems on January 25. The lawsuit was filed in the Federal District Court in Washington D.C. by Dominion Voting Systems, the firm that supplies millions of voting machines, tabulators, plus hardware and... Read More »

Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress

President Biden issued the “Modernizing Regulatory Review” Executive Order with the intent to update the review process by obtaining feedback from OMB and other agencies. This feedback will address “how the regulatory review process can promote public health and safety, economic growth, social welfare, racial justice, environmental stewardship, human dignity,... Read More »

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra

California's Department of Justice has just announced a civil investigation into the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department for potential civil rights violations. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department is the largest in the nation with over 18,000 deputies and staff members. In recent months, the department has come under scrutiny... Read More »