Why being first to return to the moon matters.

Two crises this week were variously described as wake-up calls for Americans.

In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial ... and the rude awakening provided by the 'Sputnik ...

In October 1957, the Soviet Union launched the world's first artificial satellite, Sputnik-1, causing alarm in the West. Now, ...

Some invoke the specter of Sputnik, as the news raises “questions about the future ... few cultural contacts to preserve.” So in 1957 it was a no-brainer to mobilize America’s education system to meet ...

The analogy implies that the product threatens American AI dominance in a way comparable to the space-race challenge posed by the Soviet Union's first orbital satellite in 1957. The U.S. has ...

ABUJA, Jan 22 (Reuters) - The United Nations will this week appeal for $910 million to help tackle a humanitarian crisis in northeastern Nigeria, which has been in the grip of an Islamist ...

Wesleyan University provides funding as a member of The Conversation US. But another threat remains less recognized: This collapse could pose a threat to the stability of financial markets well ...

Is the ostensible crisis of attention, at bottom, a crisis of authority? Is “People aren’t paying attention” just a dressed-up version of “People aren’t paying attention to me”?

Read on to learn more about why Myanmar ranks third on the IRC’s 2025 Emergency Watchlist. Myanmar has faced a worsening humanitarian crisis fueled by political instability since the military took ...

Nowhere To Live: The Hidden Story of America's Housing Crisis, by James S. Burling, Skyhorse Publishing, 408 pages, $32.99 James Burling, with 40 years' experience litigating property rights cases ...

The humanitarian crisis in Haiti has reached a critical point, with one in eight children now internally displaced due to escalating violence fuelled by armed groups who continue to control most of ...