Donald Trump has no ideas, but America is ready for a U-turn on climate change.
Energy & the Environment
Posted inWorking in America
Locked-Out Refinery Workers Say BP Is Trying to ‘Starve Us,’ Crush Union
In Whiting, Indiana, 800 workers have been locked out for four months, and they say the survival of their union is at stake.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
FEMA’s Summer Snowpocalypse
The Trump administration’s partisan warfare leaves the emergency management agency skidding into bureaucratic snowbanks and confronting angry Democratic lawmakers.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls Behind Trump’s Potemkin Gas Stations
How can Freedom Fuel afford to sell gas for $3.47 a gallon? That’s the wrong question to ask.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Aftermath: Trump’s Hormuz Crisis Threatens to Break Into Regional War
The president can’t end the war he started, and it threatens to draw in everyone nearby.
Posted inAmerica and the World
How Jared Kushner’s Luxury Hotel Sparked a Protest Movement in Albania
The movement is giving voice to the latent anger in a country ruled by those with wealth and connections.
Posted inAmerica and the World
Aftermath: War’s On
What are the implications for our new endless war in the Middle East?
Posted inTAP
Trump Blows Up His Own Iran Deal
He began the war on impulse; now Trump is ending the truce impulsively. The winner: Iran.
Posted inTechnology
Data Centers Win-Lose in Virginia
In an era of austerity, Virginia’s state budget deal puts its lawmakers supporting Big Tech and its tax exemptions on a crash course with their constituents.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Lessons From an Arctic Gas Pipe Dream
Alaska LNG is an instructive failure in political imagination.