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Like many computer workers who have been doing it for a bit, I've found that pain can accumulate in areas like the neck and shoulders. Human bodies aren't meant for many of the stresses...

Congress's quick reversal on sequestration-caused furloughs of air traffic controllers is an ethical and moral failure. Sequestration was meant to be a policy so heinous that Congress –...

Future problems are easy to discount in the present. Crises at hand consume our attention, leaving the long-term feeling almost like a luxury – unless, of course, long-term crises become a...

In a time of austerity – or actually in any time – expending federal law enforcement resources to fight against marijuana use is a waste of time and money. Of all of the ills in the...

Margaret Thatcher, who died this week, was a British prime minister with a mixed domestic legacy--but a record of decisive leadership in the international arena. Case in point is the 1982 Falklands...

The need for Congress to have unbiased research and facts would seem self-evident, except for the fact that it's not. Today, "information backed by partisan leadership, financial interests...

The assessment tool the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments use to assess cognitive function after a head injury, the Automated Neuropsychological Assessment Metric, lacks clear scientific evidence supporting its effectiveness, says a report from an Institute of Medicine task force.

Obstacles to equal employment in the federal government noted in a report by a working group commissioned by the Office of Federal Operations within the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission...

Black federal employees continue to face a number of equal employment opportunity obstacles, concludes a study from a working group commissioned by the Office of Federal Operations within the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.

The Office of Federal Procurement Policy says in a March 6 memo (.pdf) that the past performance reporting of contractor performance is spotty in the 24 CFO Act agencies and calls for stepped up reporting that results in 100 percent compliance by the end of fiscal 2015.