Turkey is riding high. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s relationship with U.S. President Donald Trump is paying dividends as the Trump administration seeks to fast-track the sale of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter to Turkey. Turkey’s arms industry, run by the president’s son-in-law, reverse engineers military technology and makes billions of dollars, often selling drones and […]
America has an alcohol problem, and it’s not what you think. It’s time to save the internal combustion engine by expanding beyond the single form we currently use for fuel. In sync with President Donald Trump’s efforts to boost U.S. auto production, it is time to embrace methanol, not ethanol, as a car fuel alternative […]
Sometimes in the age of social media and nonstop news, it can seem like there’s, in the words of my late Grandma Betty, “a devil behind every bush.” This, statistically, is untrue. But the increased jubilation over such dangers to the average citizen is bloodcurdling. On Monday, a disturbed individual went into a Park Avenue […]
A reader coming across the new book Good Ideas and Power Moves: Ten Lessons for Success from Taylor Swift might be excused for thinking it’s a bit of fluff. It seems like a cash grab by author Sinead O’Sullivan, a mash note to a pop star with some life advice tossed in. However, Good Ideas […]
As a particle physicist, I’m interested in the fundamental laws of nature and questions connected to the origin of the universe. My field grew out of the same intellectual soil that produced the field of atomic research, decisively pushed forward by the Manhattan Project. Arguably, entering the race to develop atomic weapons was necessary and […]
President Donald Trump fired Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer on Friday after the July Employment Situation report revised May and June payroll estimates down by more than 250,000 jobs total. Trump is a businessman who is used to paying for good data, and so he understandably was flummoxed by the BLS’s consistently overestimating […]
Great news for California: As its decline accelerates, the New York Post Media Group will launch a new publication, The California Post, to highlight...
