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The launch of Sputnik by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, was a red flag to the US government. It signaled the USSR’s development of ICBMs that could deliver nuclear weapons across oceans. In response, the US government ramped up its own ICBM program with the completion of the Atlas and development of the…

Thirty-three years after reunification, the country’s wounds are rawer than many would like to admit.

Sowell’s latest, Social Justice Fallacies, just out this month, is well worth the price of admission and the reading time.

Over the past two years, Howard Dully, 56, has embarked on a quest to discover the story behind the procedure he received as a 12-year-old boy: a transorbital or "ice-pick" lobotomy.

It’s ironic that the House GOP created a new committee earlier this year to investigate the Democrats’ alleged “weaponization” of government, writes Julian Zelizer.

It’s ironic that the House GOP created a new committee earlier this year to investigate the Democrats’ alleged “weaponization” of government, writes Julian Zelizer.

At MIT’s Media Lab, an engineer and biophysicist — and double amputee — is designing prosthetics that connect body and brain.

When the progressive woke revolution took over traditional America, matters soon reached the level of the ridiculous.

Katya Hoyer argues for a closer look at the triumphs and travails of everyday life under socialism.

Australia was among the world’s first countries for democracy, unions, human rights, female suffrage, and for free, compulsory and secular education, noting