Compromise is difficult, but governing a democracy without compromise is impossible. Anyone who doubts either the difficulty or the…
The U.S. environmental movement has devoted immense effort and political capital to blocking Keystone XL, the pipeline that would bring…
Many small countries on the periphery have experimented with policies and institutions that could usefully be adopted by others.
Two…
Early on the morning of April 21, 2010, a BP official called to alert me that a Gulf of Mexico rig under contract to BP suffered a major…
It is currently fashionable to predict a decline in the United States' power. But the United States is not in absolute decline, and in…
Because climate change is a global problem, climate change policies should involve the highest levels of effective government. However,…
It is by now a cliché to observe that Barack Obama took office facing the greatest challenge of any United States president since Franklin…
I remember clearly the thirty seconds when I grew up. As we crossed the bridge over the river on the way from the airport, I looked down…