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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...