In resource-rich countries, achieving substantive environmental reform can be incompatible with the potential profits of oil and natural...

The residents of Yazoo County, Mississippi were confronted with a danger the world had yet to witness in February 2020: a carbon dioxide...

Today’s energy crisis harkens back to the 1973 oil shock, during which Arab petrostates instituted an oil embargo against Western...

Marc Rosario grew up in Fox Point and remembers shoveling sidewalks for Adler’s Hardware on Wickenden and Benefit. In late March,...

When hostilities between Russia and Ukraine erupted just a few weeks ago, NATO member states took measures to deter crisis by sending...

The Last Frontier has given us gas, gold, and glory. It’s time for us to borrow some economic policy, too. Alaska, a state most Americans...

It has taken three years and one pipeline for the Trump administration to respond to Vladimir Putin’s increasingly hostile Russia. Since...

Since Colonial times, oil and connected international corporations have had a major influence over the nations of Nigeria and Equatorial...

Libyan politics and governance have been unstable and chaotic for the past eight years. Because of the country’s significant position as...

“Sunny ways” has been Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s post-election mantra since he assumed the office in 2015. But his...

Changes in oil prices are concerning to many Americans, but for Alaskans these shifts take on a special meaning: the size of an annual...

A 2005 headline for The Guardian reads: ‘The end of oil is closer than you think.’ A more recent example from the Christian Science...

A curious David-against-Goliath story is unfolding in disputed Southeast Asian waters. In late September, the small nation of Timor-Leste...

For the past few years, acts of violence by the Islamic fundamentalist sect Boko Haram have been the predominate focus of American media...

In the 1990s, the tobacco industry faced prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) when it covered...

Art by Katrina Machado. From the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, the notorious Keystone XL pipeline has divided the United States...

Russian incursions into Ukraine have many people saying that the realpolitik of the Cold War has returned to the global stage. After a...

South Dakota might have one Washington on Mount Rushmore, but North Dakota has pockets lined with Benjamins. The state is experiencing an...

In the space of less than a generation, China has transformed itself from a nation almost completely cut off from the international...