News Analysis
Crude Economics
Will OPEC Freeze Output Next Month?

Attention is once again focusing on OPEC as analysts wonder if it will limit production at its semiannual meeting next month.

Campus Kangaroo Courts
The Faculty Backlash Continues

More professors add their voice to the chorus of criticism of the federal government’s assault on campus civil liberties.

Polar Bore
Norway Makes Its Arctic Drilling Move

The Nordic country is selling off new exploratory licenses for the first time in two decades.

Fracking Green
Here’s How Shale Is Making America Greener

Thanks to shale, natural gas power production jumped 19 percent last year.

Controlling the Narrative
How the Kremlin Turns Tragedy into Talking Points

The Kremlin reacted very differently when Russia’s own airliner was brought down by a terror attack last year. Here’s why.

Golden State Blues
Another California Rail Fail

The high-speed rail increasingly looks like a last-ditch effort to project 20th-century ideas about transportation into the future.

South China Sea on a Boil
China Intercepts U.S. Fighter Jet

Ahead of President Obama’s trip to east Asia this weekend, things are heating up in the South China Sea.

Blue Model Blues
The Self-Sabotage of Teachers Unions

The real reason teachers aren’t getting a raise.

Future Power
Brussels and Berlin Brace for Nuclear Power Stand-off

The EU wants to ignore Germany’s concerns over nuclear power and start funding the research and development of new nuclear technologies.

Little Fatty Kim
North Korea and China’s Deteriorating Relationship

China’s only friend? Maybe not so much…

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