Bill Gates is working to raise awareness of the world’s deadliest animal: the mosquito.

In previewing a story about an Arkansas town fighting to keep phone booths, The New York Times explains what those are.

Emil Henry makes “The Case for Mitt Romney in 2016.”

Reflections on a story making the rounds this Independence Day.

A new app allows customers to cut the restaurant reservation line. What could go wrong?

1776 was a really, really long time ago.

As the medium matures, something important is being lost.

Could a transcription error be changing our understanding of America’s founding document?

Only two 2013 college football games attracted more viewers that Tuesday’s World Cup match vs. Belgium.

The burgeoning science of additive manufacturing is on the verge of being able to print functioning human organs.

How long should we expect people to work?

And odd report from Washington Post and Stars and Stripes.

Native American names are everywhere.

My latest for The Hill, co-authored with Butch Bracknell: “Explaining the Sinclair demotion.”

My latest for The National Interest, “Neoconservatives, the Iraq Debate and Ad Hominem Attacks,” has posted.

Apparently, the EPA needs to start environmental cleanup a little closer to home.

We federal civil servants are apparently in for a backdoor pay raise.

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The right to fly can’t be denied on mere whim.

Incumbency is a powerful advantage.

My latest for The Hill, “Why all VA executives are above average,” has posted.

Retired General Keith Alexander is hawking his services to banks at princely sums.

Stephanie Kwolek was looking for a way to improve tires. She invented a life-saving material.

Lawmakers and journalists don’t understand the civil service.

The Army is sending a strong message on sexual assault. It picked the wrong poster boy.

The US Government has deemed the nickname of the capital’s NFL club racially offensive.

Did sending some of its workforce home without pay impact the work environment at the Defense Department? Duh.

Too regularly engage in “bedtime procrastination,” creating a vicious cycle.

Those who tattoo celebrities want to be be paid when their tattoos appear in the media.

TNR makes the worst possible case for a proposition that’s almost certainly right.

Twenty-five years after his seminal “End of History” article, Francis Fukuyama reflects on its legacy.

Retired Marine lawyer Butch Bracknell and I tackle the subject for The Hill.

My latest for War on the Rocks, “HAGEL: CLIMBING OUT FROM UNDER THE BUS,” has posted.

An unknown Tea Party candidate unexpectedly beat the House Leader in today’s GOP primary.

Can we fix the VA at what government pays?

How the richest man in the world quickly changed the education curriculum in 45 states.

Leaving aside his emotionalism and frustration, his core argument has merit.

There’s essentially no analogue in the civilian justice system. Here’s why.

Bill Watterson, the man who drew the legendary “Calvin and Hobbes” strip, was back. And now he’s gone again.

The President’s well-intentioned campaign against military sex crimes has backfired.

When everything’s an outrage, is anything outrageous?

On of the last surviving members of the “Band of Brothers” does it again.

Genetics.

Barring shocking developments, General Joe Dunford will be the 36th Commandant of the Marine Corps.

Not every soldier is a hero. Not even every POW.