The Soviet Union’s Il-86 was born with grand ambitions - to close the gap with Western widebodies - but when I dug into its story, every innovation seemed haunted by compromise. From underpowered ...

What started as a simple idea turned into another incredible chapter in our aviation journey - the purchase of another Soviet-era fighter jet. From tracking it down to seeing it up close for the first ...

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Johnstown inventor Anatoliy Omelchenko adheres to the principle that less is more. His philosophy is to create simple products that are functional. “My goal is to visualize ideas for the future and ...

Governments are overleveraged, households are sitting on a record $18.39 trillion in debt and investors are trading on an ...

How a term coined to describe a nineteenth-century politics of exclusion would become a diagnosis, a political cudgel, and a ...

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Martin County decision on buying land works in Port Salerno, but acquisition of land for $83 million elsewhere a waste. Charlie Kirk issues.

Similar to many of our youth today, my awakening to Armenian patriotism occurred during my teenage years. The awareness of ...

Alameda-based independent filmmaker Masha Martynenko Ellsworth and lead technical director at Pixar Animation Studios ...

Two new books, on Kwame Nkrumah’s promise and Idi Amin’s tyranny, capture the soaring hopes and bitter aftermath of Africa’s ...

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