A Purpose-Driven Space Program?
The plan to put a space station in lunar orbit is pointless and expensive. NASA must lose its anachronistic fascination with manned spaceflight.
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NASA’s Worst Plan Yet
A space station in lunar orbit will accomplish nothing. NASA needs to choose a rational goal: Put a base on the Moon now, and put humans on Mars within 8 years.
Fixing What Ails Our Health-Care System
Reforms that nibble around the edges of the American health-care system aren't enough; we need a bolder reimagining of the system itself.
Ron Howard’s Mars: Space Flight Travels beyond NASA
Ron Howard in his new TV series Mars depicts the future of space flight, which no longer depends on NASA.
WWII Airmen Finally Get Their Memorial
A new memorial to American airmen of the Second World War opens in Colorado.
The Assault on Science
Prosecuting climate scientists is a war on the process of scientific discovery.
A Trump Administration Would Cave to Putin, Threatening Poland and Israel
Donald Trump’s foreign policy would result in a strengthened Russian that threatened U.S. allies Poland and Israel.
Trump: The Kremlin’s Candidate
Donald Trump’s energy adviser is all in for Putin.
Trump’s Weird Science
Whether it’s vaccines or genetically modified plants, Trump takes the troglodyte view.
Will the EPA Cause a Zika Pandemic?
DDT could save thousands or millions of lives that would otherwise be lost to the Zika virus, but environmental zealots will never permit its use.