Polygamy and African Sex Kidnappings
A rebel army hiding in the wilds of Africa descends on a village and abducts women to be “sex slaves.” The Boko Haram kidnapping of over 270 schoolgirls in Nigeria is ...
Monogamy Made Us Human
Since antiquity, monogamy has been the general rule of Western civilizations. Yet people have always known that other mating systems are possible. The Greek gods practiced a very loose monogamy ...
John Kerry Brings the Gospel of Global Warming to the World
In the 19th century, European colonists set out across the world with Bibles tucked under one arm and blueprints of European parliamentary government under the other to teach the great ...
Power Politics
Daniel Yergin won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for The Prize, his monumental, 700-page history of the world oil market. Judging from the size and scope of the sequel, he ...
Overreaction
Japan’s nuclear agony has proved one of two things: Either humanity was never meant to tap the power of the atom, or the long, slow climb toward a nuclear economy ...
The ‘Nuclear Catastrophe’ That Wasn’t
After a second explosion today at Japan’s tsunami-ravaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, is the world faced with another Chernobyl? No. Another Three Mile Island? Probably. The upside of this would ...
Here Comes That National Renewable Standard!
After 21 months of wrestling with climate legislation, it appears that the Senate may end up considering the worst-of-all-possible-worlds scenario: a national mandate requiring utilities to produce huge gobs of ...
Why Won’t Germany Accept Nuclear Power?
As the nuclear revival spreads across Europe, a strange pattern is emerging. Country after country is coming to the realization that past fears of nuclear power have been exaggerated and ...
Did ‘Renewables Mania’ Cause the Tech Slide?
Catherine Rampell did a marvelous job in Tuesday’s New York Times of pulling the cover off one of the most overlooked impediments to economic recovery: stagnation in the tech sector.
Silicon ...