D.C. Agency Is Sorry Its Staff Didn't Know New Mexico Is a State
For once, a government agency's gaffe didn't do any real harm.
Incompetence
Oops! The EPA Published the Social Security Numbers of People Who Filed FOIA Requests
Thanks to a design bug in a government transparency website, dozens of social security numbers were mistakenly made public.
Massachusetts Accidentally Bans Horse Racing
Unless lawmakers fix their mistake, hundreds of people could be out of a job.
Department of Housing and Urban Development
The Most Wasteful Government Agency You've Never Heard Of
The Navajo Housing Authority has a long and storied history of waste, fraud, and abuse of federal funds.
The Federal Government Has Been Subsidizing Phone and Internet Access for Dead People
A bipartisan group of senators wants an investigation into the government's latest disastrous internet intervention.
A Rogues' Gallery of Bad Forensics Labs
Despite improvements in DNA matching and reliability, forensics labs across the country still continue to train and monitor technicians improperly.