Staff / TruthdigDec 7, 2015
About 340 official documents, notices, receipts and internal memos obtained by The Guardian show that Islamic State is also made up of bureaucrats and civil servants that have “set themselves to work creating rules and regulations on everything from fishing and dress codes to the sale of counterfeit brands and university admission systems.” Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigMar 6, 2015
Salon contributor Elias Isquith asked former university academic, author and activist David Graeber what made him want to write a book about bureaucracy. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
Alexander Reed Kelly / TruthdigOct 26, 2014
A controversial area of law empowers the IRS to confiscate significant sums of money from "run-of-the-mill business owners and wage earners without so much as an allegation" and "without ever filing a criminal complaint," leaving the owners "to prove they are innocent," The New York Times reports. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )
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Staff / TruthdigJan 16, 2014
Jon Stewart takes us through the new sanctions against Iran that many in our dysfunctional Congress are considering. He also interviews former Defense Secretary Robert Gates about his new book "Duty." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Wellford Wilms / TruthdigAug 19, 2013
Last week the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second-largest in the nation, opened its doors for the new school year. The following story is a sobering tale of bureaucracy run amok, to the detriment of its schoolchildren.The following story is a sobering tale of bureaucracy run amok, to the detriment of schoolchildren. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 21, 2010
Police have arrested current and former city officials who are accused of pilfering millions from the taxpayers of Bell. The small Los Angeles suburb gained national notoriety as a poster town for bureaucratic corruption, and authorities wasted no time investigating and arresting the alleged nest featherers. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigMar 4, 2010
A South Carolina lawmaker is trying to repeal the state's Subversive Activities Registration Act, which charges locals who want to overthrow the government a $5 fee and requires that they register -- with the government. You have to see the paperwork (after the jump) to fully appreciate its comic value. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigSep 13, 2009
A plan by French President Nicolas Sarkozy to slap a "carbon tax" on all forms of energy except electricity has met both popular resistance and activist snubbing. Two-thirds of French voters oppose such a tax, and environmentalists have chimed in to condemn it as halfhearted and wimpy. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigOct 8, 2007
If one were to ask President Bush to make sense of his strategy in Iraq, he would likely suggest that by providing stability, the Iraqi government could work toward reconciliation and an end to sectarian bloodletting, but according to several key Iraqi leaders, that just isn't going to happen. Better, they argue, to focus on the basics of governing and providing services that Iraqis continue to suffer without. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 20, 2006
Democrats and Republicans don't agree on a lot these days, but they do agree that the US' new spy chief, John Negroponte, is "creating just another blanket of bureaucracy, muffling rather than clarifying the dangers lurking in the world," according to the N. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
Staff / TruthdigApr 7, 2006
Bush & Co. still don't have a comprehensive plan to deal with bioterror threats--despite two years of planning and billions in appropriations. The alleged culprit: bureaucratic inertia.
"I can't help but think we are not prepared if, God forbid, any of these catastrophes were to be visited upon the United States," says a congresswoman. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )
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