Project Hail Mary may just be the best movie of the year

The interstate highway system is a modern marvel allowing the transportation of goods and services across vast distances, literally tying the country together. It is also a massive money sink, consuming billions of tax dollars every year to keep it maintained.The United States military is the best in the word. Through the equipment and personnel, the modern military is able to project overwhelming...

To the editor: U.S. officials and much of the media emphasize the Islamic Republic’s brutal repression of its own citizens, including the killing of large numbers of protesters, while rarely acknowledging Washington’s role in enabling similar abuses in Iran’s past.Twenty-five years of horrific human rights abuses under the Shah of Iran, a close U.S. ally installed in a 1953 CIA-backed coup, ...