The August deadline for lifting the debt ceiling i...  ...lifting the debt ceiling is looming. Will the US government default on its loans? Has that ever happened befo...

Kids selling lemonade on a street corner is a classic American icon, but according to Georgia State Police, it's actually against the law. Cops recently busted two tweens for selling without a business permit and a food...

The USDA food pyramid was revamped in 2005 as My Pyramid, with more accurate but also more confusing information about recommended nutrition. Now it's been revamped again, and the pyramid is gone. The new graphic is call...

Do we really need government ? That's not an idle Tea Party-esque question in B...  ...pecial world record: Number of days without a new government . (It's been 289 days since the inconclusive June...  ...ve June 13, 2010, election.) Has living without a government made any diff...

Recent anti- government protests in the Middle East vary immensely regard...

From the 1958 until 1992, the Greenbriar Resor...  ...nt information, most importantly that the central government was still in operation. The project was abandone...

February is American History Month and here at Nea...  ...for use on children.So what would it take for the government to actually illegalize a drug in a time period li...

An article from Slate looks at a forgotten chapter...  ...t a forgotten chapter of Prohibition history: the government program to poison alcohol in an attempt to keep p...

I am fascinated by how technologically savvy these cyber-outlaws are. If I had the ability to crack into restricted and top secret sites to see the information that is available on them I would be tempted to dabble in h...

Since the Internet began, people have been sharing lists of the weirdest laws in the world, even so, I can't get enough of these absolutely inane rules. Elistmania has a great top 10 of these terrible laws, the best of w...