Two storylines compete for attention in K-12 education. One is about arguments, and the other is about agreements. The arguments story goes like this. Americans are at odds on many K-12 education issues, especially over culture war issues like critical race theory, library banning books, and ...
How does an agency named the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention fail to “control or prevent” a pandemic like COVID-19? Because it was off-mission, said Dr. Brian Miller with the American Enterprise Institute. Instead of intensely focusing on tracking communicable diseases and ...
The Founding Fathers were a quiltwork of conflicting personalities. George Washington was dignified and coolly aloof. Thomas Jefferson went around with his head in the clouds. John Adams was perpetually looking for someone to argue with. Bookish James Madison was a brain with arms and legs ...
The Russian military on May 8 officially acknowledged that it had employed its new “Universal Gliding and Correction Module,” or UMPK, against Ukraine. Designed to turn a “dumb” bomb into an inexpensive guided glide bomb, the UMPK fills a critical gap for the Russian air force. The ...
There’s a sneaky climate villain flying under the radar these days: methane gas. With all the focus on decarbonizing the energy sector and reducing carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere, it can be easy to forget that methane is 25 times more potent. Methane gas is emitted from petroleum ...
My family and I follow the weather closely. We even frequently tune in to the Weather Channel. But I never dreamed the cable outlet would become today’s Walter Cronkite. Alas, it is so. A new YouGov survey ranked the Weather Channel as America’s most trusted news source, ahead of several ...