The pall that descended on the latest U.N. climate confab in the wake of Donald Trump’s election was justified. It’s a foretaste of things under an administration determined to part company with global environmentalists. Along with issuing the obligatory proclamations of impending ...
In a well-ordered laboratory in Owings Mills, a suburb of Baltimore, an engineer has been perfecting a device that might be called the missing link in renewable energy. Now, it is ready to begin its transformative role in electric generation, bringing electricity to the remotest places in ...
If there was a question of how risky heavy dependence on China for critical minerals is, it was dispelled with China’s plan to restrict the export of graphite, a key battery metal needed for everything from weapons production to electric cars and the transmission of solar and wind ...
Russia’s military intervention in Syria since 2015 has allowed it to assert its power, creating a misleading perception of Russia’s military might. In contrast, Ukraine has dispelled that illusion and significantly injured its invaders. Russia’s decade-long involvement in Syria has ...
Nothing succeeds like … secession. Oregon’s conservative western counties want to break away from their deep-blue state and become part of the solidly red state of Idaho. They are asking President-elect Donald Trump to help make it happen. Across the continent, state Sen. Liz Kruger, ...
Not every White cowboy from Texas is a pro-gun conservative; not every undocumented immigrant in California is a pro-choice liberal. There seems to be a growing assumption that people will think, act and vote based on their race and ethnicity, a sort of intellectual racism. Antiracism, the ...