Curmudgeons Corner

No, South Park, You Didn't Need to Yank the Charlie Kirk Episode

China completes second hot-fire test for new moon rocket, including engine restarts

Is there life on Saturn's moon Enceladus? New study complicates the search

Erika Kirk, Charlie Kirk’s Widow: ‘This Movement Will Not Die. I Refuse to Let It Happen’

Charlie Kirk Assassination Suspect was ‘Pretty Far Left on Everything’

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

Why Do So Many Young Americans Justify Political Violence?

Israel-Qatar Derangement Syndrome

A Politician Rises to the Charlie Kirk Occasion

Duffy’s moon messaging

Artemis II Crew Both Subjects and Scientists in NASA Deep Space Research

NASA’s Sean Duffy surprising leadership

'I'll be damned if that's the story we write': Acting NASA Administrator Duffy vows not to lose moon race to China

Protein discovery may lead to Alzheimer’s treatment even before symptoms start

US energy chief tells BBC nuclear fusion will soon power the world

Interstellar overhype: Nasa debunks claim about alien-made comet

A small, portable test could revolutionize how we diagnose Alzheimer’s

Charlie Kirk’s Assassination Feels Like a Hinge Point

A Brother on the Moon (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 1) #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned Patton in Palestine Audible Logo Audibl...

Will the Supreme Court Overturn Gay Marriage?

The Murder of Charlie Kirk

The Campus Vigils for Charlie Kirk

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? Audible Logo Audible Audiobook – Unabridged #CommissionEarned

Why is America Going Back to the Moon Audible Logo Audible Audiobook – Unabridged #CommissionEarned

House appropriators offer support to threatened NASA missions

Your Name Could Orbit the Moon with NASA’s Artemis II

Study explains how a rare gene variant contributes to Alzheimer’s disease

Amazon’s Zoox jumps into U.S. robotaxi race with Las Vegas launch

Did NASA's Perseverance rover find evidence of ancient life on Mars? The plot thickens

Forget the wild-haired savages. Here’s what Vikings really looked like

Qatar and the U.S. Have a Secret Deal

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

The AI-Driven Assembly Line

GOP Has a Chance in Michigan’s Senate Election

The Murder of Charlie Kirk The MAGA movement leader was known for inviting debate with opponents.

After early struggles, NASA’s ambitious mission to Titan is “on track” for launch

Has Perseverance found a biosignature on Mars?

Musk confident Starship will start launching 100 tons to orbit next year

“She Loved America”: Mother of Iryna Zarutska

Books by Mark R. Whittington

Articles by Mark R. Whittington

Charlotte train slaughter suspect should never have been free to kill Ukrainian refugee, his brother says: ‘They could have prevented it’

Are We on the Threshold of Commercial Fusion?

Apophis flyby in 2029 will be the first time a potentially hazardous asteroid has been visible to the naked eye

RFK, MAHA say how they'll confront chronic diseases in kids. Why are some disappointed?

Astronomers May Have Discovered The First Rocky Earth-Like World With An Atmosphere, Just 41 Light Years Out

The Evolution of the Human Brain Itself May Explain Why Autism is so Common

Zohran Mamdani and Democratic Socialism

Why is America Going Back to the Moon (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

Israel’s Surprising Economic Resilience

The CDC Can Help Those Disfigured by ‘Gender-Affirming Care’

Israel Targets Hamas in Qatar

EU wants to mine the Moon for clean energy resources

SpaceX test fires next Super Heavy booster for Starship's 11th upcoming launch

Climate Zealots Must Be Stopped From Abusing Courts for Political Goals

Why Are More Older People Dying After Falls?

Your Next Therapist Could be a Video Game or a Wearable and It Might Actually Work

Scientists Just Discovered a Massive Source of Drinking Water Hiding Beneath the Atlantic Ocean

New Catalyst Recycles Plastics Without Sorting. It Even Works on Dirty Trash

Mars Seems to Have a Hot, Solid Core and That’s Surprisingly Earth-Like

Trump-Style Populism Is Rising in Europe

The Moon, Mars, and Beyond : Two Tales from the Coming Space Age #CommissionEarned

The Economics of Education Reform

Who Can Save France Now?

Mamdani to ‘Discourage’ Intifada Call

Congress and Trump may compromise on the SLS rocket by axing its costly upper stage

Scientists discover potential way to combat deadly weight loss in cancer patients

‘Space economy is like iPhone’: NASA's Sean Duffy tosses analogy, tells ‘bright spot’ in US-Russia relation is...

This Startup Is Racing To Be The First To Mine Helium On The Moon

The More Astronomers Watch Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS, the Weirder It Gets

Brainless bodies and pig organs: does science back up Putin and Xi’s longevity claims?

The Billionaires Fueling the Quest for Longer Life

‘War Department’ Is a Good Start

Why is it So Hard to Go Back to the Moon? (How America went to the moon, stopped, and is returning again) #CommissionEarned

At Long Last, Clarity on Climate

Ukrainian Missile Fuel, Made in Denmark

A Senate Confirmation Fast Lane?

Why the US is going back to the moon after 50 years

Cruz’s committee is taking China’s ‘bad moon on the rise’ seriously The Senate Commerce Committee, which oversees NASA, recently held a hea...

Orson Welles Meets AI in a Restoration of ‘The Magnificent Ambersons’ — and Its Lost Ending

Ten flights in, the Starship Program has had successes and failures

NASA releases details on revised next phase of commercial space station development

Gabriella's War: A Vampire Gabriella Novel #CommissionEarned

Ex-Chicago Police chief: Democrats are afraid Trump will fix city crime

8 Instances Of Chinese Nationals Arrested Across US College Campuses

‘I Don’t Give A Sh*t What You Call It’: JD Vance Goes Nuclear On Leftist Influencer

Trump's Share-the-Wealth Retirement Plan Will Help All Americans

How the Space shuttle helped women break Nasa's glass ceiling

Scientists Can Now Use Glue Gun To Repair Broken Bones

It Makes More Sense to Produce Hydrogen With Nuclear, Not Renewables

Children of Apollo (3 book series) #CommissionEarned

U.S. sending 10 fighter jets to Puerto Rico for operations targeting drug cartels

Putin Sends Trump Two More Bad Signals

Can Trump’s ‘War Department’ Win a War?

NASA’s acting chief “angry” about talk that China will beat US back to the Moon

Duffy pushes back against testimony that NASA is falling behind China in lunar

Is the Left Losing Its Cultural Power?

NASA Is Testing a Nuclear Battery That Could Last 433 Years

Yesterday’s Senate hearing on Artemis: It’s all a game!

Putin, Xi Hot Mic Moment on Organ Transplants Underscores Concerns Over Organ Harvesting in China

A Pill to Heal the Brain Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

Stem Cells Age Faster in Space

Britain’s Speech Police Nab Comedian Graham Linehan

A Brother on the Moon (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 1) #CommissionEarned

Patton in Palestine (Stories of Alternate History by Mark R. Whittington Book 2) #CommissionEarned

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me

RFK Jr.’s Operation Warped Memory

Abbas and Macron Play Games With Oct. 7

Companies race to win ground transportation contracts for the moon

NASA names exploration official as associate administrator

Former NASA chief says United States likely to lose second lunar space race

Scientists Reprogram Blood Cells to Prevent Alzheimer’s and Fight Aging In the Brain

Florida Is About to Become One Big Health Experiment

Give Bernie the Boot

The Last Moonwalker and Other Stories #CommissionEarned

Three Big Lies About the Israel-Hamas War

Trump’s Gunboat War on Drugs

China’s Military Parade Was a Message