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If we’re being even a little optimistic about future CO2 levels, warns the energy and risk analyst Charles Ebinger, then we’re in trouble.
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Will futuristic energy solutions such as fusion and biofuels ever live up to the hype surrounding them?
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Even if there is, “dirty” coal in developing countries still poses a major problem.
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The “global nuclear renaissance” may finally be at hand. But can the technology be kept in the right hands?
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Wind is becoming a more viable (if still controversial) energy source, but effective solar power may have to wait until the nanotechnology boom.
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Pushing developing countries to slow development because of the energy crisis we’ve created is not just unfair—it’s dangerous.
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A conversation with the director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution.
“A woman has no peace as an artist until she proves over and over that she won’t be eliminated,” Louise Bourgeois once said. On Monday, this plane of existence eliminated […]
There was a time, in the now dim and distant past, when Israeli Commando actions were often heralded as brave and awe inspiring. Take for instance the no nonsense approach […]
While artificial intelligence has yet to realize its often dramatic promises, the development of brain science has led thinkers to prioritize the mind over the body as the center of the self.
As diagnosis of mental illness has changed with shifting cultural attitudes, now the term "nervous breakdown" is being reevaluated. Are you on the verge of "burnout syndrome"?
New technologies are turning smart phones into credit cards and cash registers, but as usual, there are trust issues and people are nervous about abandoning their wallets all together.
Leonard Pitts takes the pulse of those affected by the Gulf Oil spill and finds that many who once opposed big government maneuvers are now begging for its assistance.
"'Democracy' in the abstract misleads us. Living in a democracy—and it is lived experience that must be our theme—becomes a different thing in each generation," begins Kenneth Minogue.
P.J. O'Rourke has a clever idea for reviving newspaper sales—the pre-obituary: "official notices that certain people aren’t dead with brief summaries of their lives indicating why we wish they were."
A new book examines the lives of the Romantic poets in their well-intentioned but ultimately ambiguous morality. It is a case of life imitating art, writes Laura Miller for Slate.
"While taking a more relaxed attitude towards the pursuit of wealth may make sense as a personal philosophy, it is an uncertain guide to public policy," says the Financial Times.
"When will our media reflect America on abortion?" asks William McGurn at The Wall Street Journal now that a Gallup poll has reported that half of America is pro-life.
Paul Krugman's recommendation for more public spending is at odds with his own comparison of the U.S. to Japan where aggressive fiscal policy did not stimulate growth, says The New Republic.
THERE is an exhibit more ghastly and gruesome than the tatty stuffed Alsatian dog, awarded the Gustav Husak medal for sinking its teeth into a record number of attempted defectors […]