When I was seven, my class was taken to an auditorium in our elementary school. There was a projector in…
Once a year, usually late in February, my wife’s face brightens as she thumbs through our mail. “We got our…
New government data have some unwelcome news: The public is getting poorer. Census Bureau data released last week show that median…
Shortly before he died, the astronomer Carl Sagan (1934-1996) offered a two-part warning in an interview with Charlie Rose. The…
The Justice Department recently filed a lawsuit against SpaceX , the California-based spacecraft manufacturer and satellite communications company founded by Elon Musk . In its…
My wife and I recently met with the principal of the school our daughter attends to discuss her education future.…
For the first time since the Truman administration, Oregon drivers will be permitted to grab a fuel hose and fill…
In May, the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) did something extraordinary. The agency quietly scrubbed the Wuhan Institute of Virology from…
A growing number of people, including prominent scientists, are calling for a full retraction of a high-profile study published in the…
In June, The New York Times ran an exposé detailing the tragedy that we may never know the origins of COVID-19. “For three years,…
My wife and I recently met with the principal of the school our daughter attends to discuss her education future.…
For more than a quarter-century, we’ve been hearing predictions about the demise of cable—and with it, cable news. A Pew…
I have a friend who is pretty successful but works in a high-pressure job. Every few years, when the work…
Last September, billionaire Ken Griffin announced he was pulling up stakes and moving Citadel—his gigantic hedge fund—from Chicago to Miami.…
I sometimes wonder what it would be like if my 40-something self talked to my 18-year-old self. I think I’d…