Late 21st-century graduate students of business studying the growing problem of stranded assets will almost certainly focus on the history of Canada’s Athabasca Oil Sand (aka tar sands). The case studies they read will either describe the gradual abandonment of the world’s largest reserve of bituminous crude or they will read about the tar […]

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  The amicus briefs filed in the challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to be argued before the Supreme Court on March 4 illuminate the Great American Political-Cultural Divide. Those who filed briefs in defense of Obama’s legislation are recognizable: the American Cancer Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, et al. There is a […]

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  KEYSTONE XL Builder: TransCanada. Capacity: 830,000 barrels a day. Cost: $8 billion. Backstory: runs from Hardisty, Alberta, south through the U.S. Midwest to Houston, Texas. TRANS MOUNTAIN Builder: Kinder Morgan. Capacity: 540,000 barrels a day. Cost: $5.4 billion. Backstory: runs parallel to existing line, would carry bitumen from Edmonton to Burnaby, B.C. NORTHERN GATEWAY […]

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  The challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) heard before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 4 is supported and bankrolled by a right-wing think tank most widely known for its campaign against environmental regulation, or “eco-socialism.” The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) was founded in 1984, backed by tobacco companies and other corporate and […]

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  When George W. Bush included Iran in the “axis of evil” in his State of the Union speech in January 2002, Iran had 200 centrifuges it could use to enrich uranium. When Bush left office in 2009, Iran had 7,000 centrifuges. There was a moment when his administration might have contained Tehran’s nuclear program. […]

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