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Trumps Possible Crime: Gun Purchasing As recent events have unfolded, prosecutors across the nation are questioning the legality of an alleged gun purchase made by President Donald J. Trump. It has come to light that Trump had allegedly purchased a weapon,

The United States has a long and extensive history of threatened and real shutdowns of the federal government, yet lawmakers once again find themselves in a familiar position. Shutdowns occur when laws expire and Congress is unable to pass a

The House of Representatives has recently passed three spending bills, but were unsuccessful in trying to pass the fourth. The three successful bills, H.R. 7617, H.R. 7618, and H.R. 7620, consist of $900 billion in emergency budget for 2021. It

In the current political climate, Republican candidates attempt to win voter support by embracing former President Reagan's messages of patriotism, government responsibility, and small government. But, analysts believe that Reagan would likely not be in step with the GOP of

In recent days, longtime U.S. Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ) has come under increasing scrutiny and pressure from his colleagues to resign his post due to potential criminal prosecution. This situation arises from an ongoing Justice Department investigation into Menendez's lengthy

On Thursday, lawyers from the Department of Justice asked a judge to reject a request from Jack Smith, a suspect in the January 6 Capitol attack, for a narrow gag order. Smith’s counsel had requested the order to avoid having their

Ralph Nader has recently come forward with his views on the 2020 presidential election and President Donald Trump's recent proposals to help Joe Biden win. Nader, a consumer advocate and former candidate for president, has warned against trusting the President's

Of the many steps taken to combat the depression during the Roosevelt administration's famous first hundred days, none was more significant than the passage of the June 16, 1933 Banking Act providing for the establishment of the Federal Deposit Insurance

(This is the last installment of a three-part essay. The other parts are here and here.) A Capital Bank As its title suggests, the best-known history of the RFC, James Stuart Olson's (1982) Saving Capitalism: The Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the New

(This is the second installment of a three-part essay. The first part is here.) Big Engines that Couldn't Although Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC) was "more largely a banker's loan bank than anything else" (Ebersole 1933, 477), financial institutions were never the