On May 18, former FBI Director Robert Mueller was appointed as Special Counsel to investigate possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. What precisely does that entail? What powers and authority will Mueller have? Where do they come from? And how much trouble could it mean for the Trump administration? Let’s take a look.
Every month the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) releases the latest estimate of “the unemployment rate”, grabbing a few headlines and occasionally spawning confused debates. This article should serve as a simple primer on what the unemployment rate measures, how it’s calculated, and why it matters. What is an Unemployment Rate? An unemployment rate is
Given the intransigence of the Freedom Caucus in the House, it seems likely that we may see the return of the “debt ceiling” or “debt limit” to news headlines this year. Here’s a stripped-down summary of the concept; there’s a lot more detail available from Wikipedia, of course, but this should save you some digging.
Civil Rights are the basic rights of a citizen of a given nation. They comprise those rights, freedoms, and standards of access without which one cannot participate meaningfully in the society of that nation–both the political society of laws, legislatures, and courts, and the civil society of moving around, speaking one’s mind, and existing in