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Western ideas actually work

Trigger warning: The following discusses themes of race, gender, “hate” speech ... Author Heather Mac Donald takes a lot of heat. She writes about race, crime, diversity, gender, merit — and says things that got her shouted down on college campuses. She points out the absurdity of the left’s attack on Western civilization. “For the left to claim that the West is the source of inequity in the world,” she says, “oppression, racism, the crushing of minority voices, of indigenous populations, that is so ignorant! It is so blind to the reality of history ...

Greatest sports story ever

Everyone who witnessed it remembers where they were. The victory of the gold-medal-winning U.S. men’s hockey team over the Soviets at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, was the greatest American sporting event of the 20th century, featuring the greatest call of all time — broadcaster Al Michaels indelibly counting down the final seconds before exclaiming, “Do you believe in miracles? ... Yes!” On the occasion of this year’s Winter Olympics, Netflix has released a new documentary on the team, “Miracle: The Boys of ‘80.” It is a story that has been ...

Blowing the big moment is only human

The collapse of young Ilia Malinin — the U.S. figure skater known as the Quad God — on Olympic ice last Friday is the moment in this year’s games most watchers will remember. Few of us can imagine performing the feats of these athletes, but we can all relate to blowing a high-stakes moment. It’s part of the human experience. Why does it happen? Scientists studying three rhesus lab monkeys (named Earl, Nelson and Ford) have the beginning of an answer. And the research offers comfort to Malinin and the rest of us, indicating we shouldn’t be too harsh on ourselves. Blowing it, ...

Public health, green groups sue EPA over repeal of climate rule

WASHINGTON (AP) — A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, challenging the rescinding of a scientific finding that has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. A rule finalized by the EPA last week revoked a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. The Obama-era finding is the legal underpinning of nearly all climate regulations under the Clean ...

Transportation Department says more than 550 driving schools must close

(AP) — More than 550 commercial driving schools in the U.S. that train truckers and bus drivers must close after investigators found they employed unqualified instructors, failed to adequately test students and had other safety issues, the federal Transportation Department announced Wednesday. The move marks the Transportation Department’s latest effort to improve safety in the trucking industry. And unlike its previous actions last fall to decertify up to 7,500 schools that included many defunct operations, this latest step is focused on what it deemed were active schools with ...

Authorities using deep-sea tech to try to find sunken fishing boat

GLOUCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A coalition of authorities is deploying technology to try to locate the wreck of a fishing boat that sank last month off Massachusetts, killing all seven aboard. But winter weather and sea conditions have thus far slowed their efforts. The 72-foot (22-meter) vessel Lily Jean was returning to port early Jan. 30 to repair fishing gear when it sank in frigid Atlantic waters off the historic fishing port of Gloucester. Multiple agencies, including the U.S. Coast Guard, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Massachusetts Environmental Police, are ...