During World War II, American bomber crews faced devastating losses over occupied Europe. Without long-range fighter escorts, bombers were most vulnerable after releasing their payloads, when enemy ...

During World War II, Nazi Germany invested enormous resources into so-called Wunderwaffen, or “wonder weapons.” Adolf Hitler believed advanced technology could reverse Germany’s fortunes late in the ...

In 1988 President Ronald Reagan argued that “the federal government declared a war on poverty, and poverty won”. Thomas Sowell, a 95-year-old economist at the Hoover Institution and social-media ...