Perhaps you didn’t pay attention when your child’s school announced a move to “standards-based” report cards. Yeah, whatever, you thought. But when the first such report card arrived home, you weren’t ...

In the early 1960s, Cuban radar operators witnessed a strange phenomenon: Peering at their screens, they could see targets screaming toward their airspace at tremendous velocity. But when fighter ...

Q: The people who are buying my home hired a home inspector, and no major problems were found. But the buyers are concerned about the roof because the inspector checked it off as “poor,” even though ...