Musk’s ‘fail fast’ ethos has faltered in Washington

June 20, 2025

Musk’s ‘fail fast’ ethos has faltered in Washington

On Wednesday night, SpaceX’s Starship rocket erupted into flames shortly after takeoff, marking another high-profile failure in Elon Musk’s “fail fast” development tactics. But to Musk, failure isn’t a bug but a feature. His core philosophy in rockets and government reform? Break things, learn fast, iterate. The beleaguered rollout of the Department of Government Efficiency […]

Is this really the best New York City Democrats have to offer?

The future of New York City looks bleak. Its top three choices in the Democratic primary for mayor are all walking disasters. With less than a week to go, the highest polling candidates among Democrats are former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, and City Comptroller Brad Lander. A recent poll has Cuomo leading Mamdani in a simulation of the city’s […]

What, to the American, is Juneteenth?

Today is June 19, or Juneteenth, as it has come to be known in the United States. It marks the anniversary of Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger issuing General Order No. 3 after arriving in Galveston, Texas, on June 19, 1865, over two months after the Civil War ended. The order announced the enforcement of the […]

Similarities between Alex Padilla and Star Wars’s Emperor Palpatine

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) is no political hero. He is not a martyr. Democrats today are little more than soap opera performers. Padilla is a great example of this. Despite left-wing adulation to the contrary, the senator from California demonstrated over the last week that he is nothing more than a court jester portraying the […]

It’s the calm before the storm in Turkey

It has now been more than a month since Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurdish insurgency in Turkey, called for his Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, to disband more than 40 years after it started its fight. “The terrorist group laying down its arms is a victory for civilization,” deputy State Department spokesman […]

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Skrmetti ruling brings children’s rights back into view

Not even feigned impartiality comes through in transgender activists’ interactions with the Supreme Court’s recent United States v. Skrmetti ruling. To the legacy media and the dissenting justices, the decision is strictly unreasonable. After Skrmetti’s arguments in December 2024, justices released their opinions this past Wednesday, revealing a 6-3 ruling in favor of upholding Tennessee’s […]

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