Open Thread

Storm clouds over Miami, Florida, as researchers monitor the bay's health with data from floating buoys in August 2023. | Joe Raedle/Getty Images This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration’s plan to dismantle an ocean observation system vital to understanding the climate crisis and marine ecosystems would “severely degrade” the accuracy of weather predictions and El Niño forecasts, with economic con

What should constitute the proper education of U.S. military officers? Who should be teaching at the war colleges and command and staff colleges? Until it was knocked out of the headlines by the Iran war, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s criticism of professional military education (PME) unleashed a debate among members of the national security […]

"There was nothing inevitable about it. Absolutely nothing," the Supreme Court justice tells Reason's Nick Gillespie.

On Friday, Elon Musk’s company SpaceX is scheduled to begin trading on the Nasdaq stock exchange. This will be a profoundly positive event for both the United States and the investing public. The public offering of SpaceX represents the nation’s renewed commitment to technological innovation, industrial strength, and leadership in the final frontier: outer space. Since the late […]