A new piece by the ever outspoken Bill McKibben, co-written with Mike Tidwell, encapsulates the shortcomings of the modern green movement. It has everything you might expect from a piece co-written by one of the leaders of the environmental movement: lurid imagery, emotionally charged NIMBY-ism, mangled science, and a detachment from the considerations that ultimately go into energy decision-making.

Critics of liberal arts education argue that it risks trapping students in low-paying, dead-end careers. But according to a new study, they’re wrong. Although they may start slow, liberal arts majors eventually earn more than their peers with pre-professional or professional degrees. Unfortunately, this isn’t true of humanities majors who only have a liberal arts bachelor’s degree.

After a period of technological stasis, internet capabilities are finally growing. And that growth means immense, positive change for the American workforce—if American internet service providers get on board.

India’s newest rising political star, the chief minister of Delhi Arvind Kejriwal, is smashing and stumbling his way through the first weeks of holding office. A backlash has grown against him. But changing Indian politics in India was never going to be easy.

The first fatalities in the ongoing protests in Ukraine may have forced government and opposition leaders to meet around a negotiating table yesterday, but the ceasefire subsequently reached is only the calm before the storm. Three hours of face-to-face talks yesterday afternoon yielded no results, and by nightfall the same three opposition leaders who had […]

In Illinois, unions forced a mom who receives a stipend for caring for sick son to pay dues. She’s taken her case all the way to the Supreme Court, and the outcome could have massive implications for the future of unionization and home health work.

Brussels unveiled a new set of climate goals today, and the targets set out sketch a portrait of a continent wary of the costs of green policymaking. Conspicuously absent from this set of targets—which will effectively replace its 2020 counterpart—are any mandatory renewable energy requirements for national governments. Instead, the European Commission is giving governments the freedom to choose the means by which they achieve the required end.

Ethnic violence has erupted in Algeria’s southern desert city of Ghardaia this weekend. One man died, ten were wounded and homes and businesses went up in flames.The zone of instability that continues to form in the wake of the Arab Spring may be moving towards Algeria.

There are forces at work in American politics that keep any party from establishing a permanent majority. The major fault line opening up between New York’s most powerful Democrats, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, proves the point.

Scientists have discovered a new method for converting plant matter into biofuel that could help undo America’s biofuels boondoggle, and could help bring down global food prices.