For a bomber that first entered service when slide rules still mattered, the B-52 keeps forcing the same question: how does an aircraft this old stay central to modern airpower? The answer is no ...

I’ve written about this several times over the years, but it’s time to write about it again. I’ve retold the story four times this month including once to two elementary school teachers. Too many ...

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Keuffel & Esser Company, which had its headquarters in New York City, was a leading American maufacturer of slide rules and drawing instruments. Between 1961 and 1971, the company gave the Smithsonian ...

Harvard College meant to take no chances. As a postwar requirement, every freshman living in Harvard Yard’s hallowed but inflammable old halls had to know how to make a quick exit by rope. Last week ...

In a stark warning on the first anniversary of President Donald Trump’s second term in office, The Bulwark’s editor, Jonathan V. Last, suggests that under Trump, America may adopt Putinism as its ...

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Argentina’s Treasury sold dollars Friday, people familiar with the matter said, looking to limit the decline of the peso on the first day that new rules allowing for larger swings kicked in. Traders ...

A federal judge in California ruled Monday that the federal government is allowed to share basic information about Medicaid participants with Immigration and Customs Enforcement amid a government push ...

As he made the rounds of Jersey City’s sprawling Medical Center last week, Mayor Thomas J. Whelan cheerily shook hands with employees and urged them to give him a call “if there’s anything I can do ...