Keep Humans Out of Space

Send out robots, They work fine; People are, A waste of time. President Barack Obama deserves credit for ordering a new study of NASA. The findings of his Augustine Commission review of our plans for human spaceflight are impressive as well. We needed to seriously...

Arming Yemen against al-Qaeda

Americans got a crash course on Yemen for Christmas. That’s because we’ve wanted to know more about the little-known, dirt-poor country in southwestern Arabia where the “underwear bomber” who tried to blow up a plane—bound for Detroit...

How About We Call It Quits On Empire?

Sure it’s fun, But costly too; Telling nations, What to do. And you thought Star Wars was just science fiction, right? Ha! Remember how the heroic insurgents were first ferreted out by a drone? Remember how the rulers of the universe were called “The...
Eight Years of Guantanamo: What’s Changed?

Eight Years of Guantanamo: What’s Changed?

The first 20 detainees arrived at Guantánamo’s Camp X-Ray eight years ago, on January 11, 2002. Just over seven years later, President Barack Obama—on his second full day after taking office—issued an order to shut the prison within a year. His rhetoric was...