Project 2025 shows that Republicans can’t take heat—so they’d try to blow up the kitchen if they get the chance.
Science, Tech, Environment
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Unknown Toll of the AI Takeover
As artificial intelligence guzzles water supplies and jacks up consumers’ electricity rates, why isn’t anyone tracking the resources being consumed?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
The Green-Energy Revolution Shows What Real Innovation Looks Like
Pushing the ball forward in energy and manufacturing is a lot more difficult than selling software.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
Water Democracies
Four-hundred-year-old acequia systems of the Southwest are changing how communities cope with water scarcity.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
The Return of the Koch Brothers
Koch Industries is buying an Iowa fertilizer plant built with taxpayer dollars. Will federal authorities block the deal?
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
A More Actively Managed Decline?
Our staff writer reviews 2023 and her work.
Posted inEnergy and the Environment
COP-Out 28
As the debacle in Dubai demonstrates, the oil companies and their OPEC allies are the last people we can trust to solve climate change.
Posted inTransportation
The Cybertruck Is the Dumbest Thing I’ve Ever Seen
Elon Musk enters his Caligula era.
Posted inTransportation
Taking Control of the Vehicle
The National Transportation Safety Board wants to mandate anti-speeding technology. It sounds like a no-brainer, but the opportunities for cybersecurity breaches are greater.
