As taxpayers are aware, the public sector isn’t known as a bastion of efficiency. Security approvals for new software are no exception. While security is essential for military operations, security approvals for software duplicate existing work. For example, after years of a company working ...
In his inaugural address on January 20, 1961, President John F. Kennedy called on his fellow Americans to “ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country.” Kennedy’s words embraced America’s better angels: the philanthropic spirit we celebrate ...
An out-of-wedlock pregnancy … Palace intrigue and backstabbing … A headstrong monarch scorched by public fury … It may sound like business as usual at Buckingham Palace, but you won’t find this story in Fleet Street tabloids. It happened 185 years ago. It ruined an innocent ...
There’s a reason we heard so much about extreme heat deaths over the summer: the U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres made a “call to action” on extreme heat that prompted mandarins across his vast organization to issue warnings without letting the facts get in the way of a good ...
Americans love new technology, from reusable rockets to robotic microsurgery. So, why is there so much opposition to new technologies that can replace traditional cigarettes with a product far less harmful? That was one of the questions at the recent Nicotine & Tobacco Science Conference ...
As taxpayers are painfully aware, government contracts can easily go awry. Federal taxpayers paid Boeing an astounding $3.9 billion to build two Air Force One aircraft; costs have ballooned with taxpayers on the line for ancillary costs. Now, the Department of Defense is doubling down on ...