Science

Emails between the Seattle mayor's office and an economist at the University of California, Berkeley show that the mayor's staff tried to deliberately undermine a University of Washington study showing that the city's $15 minimum wage ordinance was harming the city's low-income workers. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Emails show Seattle mayor worked to undermine $15 minimum wage study

Sean Higgins · July 27, 2017 7:16 pm

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt recently hinted at the potential for a televised debate on climate change, so that people can hear directly from scientists themselves. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Beltway Confidential

Scott Pruitt’s rumored televised climate debate would be a win for public discourse

Jeremy Beaman · July 20, 2017 7:16 pm

Instead of taking a leadership role on gun silencers, medical organizations have indulged their prejudices and remained silent to the detriment of their patients. (AP Photo/Lisa Marie Pane)

Medicine’s shameful silence on silencers

Timothy Wheeler · July 18, 2017 4:01 am

From the periphery, and certainly from reading the headlines, cancelling out these two elements of climate policy might seem like a tall task. (Tim Kupsick /The Casper Star-Tribune via AP, File)

Energy and Environment

A climate roadmap for President Trump

Patrick Michaels · July 14, 2017 4:01 am

Without Trump's action, the Afghan girls' team might never have made it. (AP Photo/Rahmat Gul)

Beltway Confidential

Trump gives Afghan girls the chance of a lifetime

Tom Rogan · July 13, 2017 9:07 pm

The EPA had studies done both of the landfill and its effects on the surrounding community, and their conclusions have all been the same: The site is currently safe â" well, as safe as can be for a Superfund site. (AP Photo/Ryan Hasler)

Beltway Confidential

Good grief: The Left is denying science on the EPA’s findings for West Lake Landfill

Charles Sauer · July 12, 2017 10:19 pm

"We don't need a 'red team' to tell us. #Climatechange is already redrawing maps and taking a toll on our planet," tweeted Sen. Tom Carper. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Energy and Environment

Sen. Tom Carper uses giant iceberg to melt Pruitt’s climate debate idea

John Siciliano · July 12, 2017 7:10 pm

Hawking has committed the unforgivable sin of allowing hyperbole and his progressive political views to grossly distort his cold-eyed scientific judgment. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Energy and Environment

Stephen Hawking’s indefensible politicization of science

Michael Guillen · July 10, 2017 4:01 am

The Human Clock

Temma Ehrenfeld · June 24, 2017 11:30 am

Make Progress Exciting Again

P.J. O'Rourke · June 23, 2017 5:40 am

Boeing, which won a contract to develop and test an experimental space plane for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is expanding its space business with the acquisition of a satellite-builder.

National Security

‘Phantom Express’ approved for quick launches into low Earth orbit

Tom Roeder · June 11, 2017 2:37 pm

Reading the biographies of its 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class, it's hard not to be inspired. (Robert Markowitz/NASA via AP)

Beltway Confidential

In NASA’s new astronaut candidates, evidence of American greatness

Tom Rogan · June 7, 2017 8:57 pm