As world leaders settled into their digs in Glasgow, Scotland, last October for the climate conference known as COP26, Bank of England head turned sustainable investment guru Mark Carney had a stern warning for his friends in the financial sector. “In the months and years ahead,” he wrote, “judge all financial institutions not by what…Continue Reading
For the past few months, much of the handwringing about Russia massing troops on Ukraine’s border has been centered on the extent to which the West is responsible for the latest crisis. Much of that supposed responsibility focuses on NATO expansion, the question of Ukraine’s membership in the military alliance, and the persistent claim from…Continue Reading
The news that Rudy Giuliani is open to making an about-face and answering the House January 6 committee’s questions is a potentially explosive development that could redirect the course of the entire investigation.What Giuliani has to share could be some of the most valuable information the committee will obtain. Giuliani was Donald Trump’s personal attorney…Continue Reading
Larry David appeared in an a Super Bowl ad on Sunday. It was extremely funny. It showed David in various period costumes pooh-poohing a succession of transformative innovations: the wheel, the fork, the toilet, the Declaration of Independence, the light bulb, the moon shot, portable music. But the punchline wasn’t funny at all. In modern…Continue Reading
Last summer, amid the United States’ chaotic withdrawal from Afghanistan, a dispute with France over nuclear submarines, and a speech to the United Nations in which President Biden declared “America is back,” one criticism started appearing again and again: Joe Biden is just like Donald Trump. If you squinted you could see the broad outlines…Continue Reading
Roughly a half century ago, rising energy prices devastated Western economies, helping make the autocrats of the Middle East insanely rich while propping up the slowly disintegrating Soviet empire. Today the world is again reeling from soaring energy prices; but this time the wound is self-inflicted — a product of misguided policies meant to accelerate the transition…Continue Reading
Advocates on both sides of a debate over dramatically restricting Medicare’s coverage of an expensive and controversial Alzheimer’s treatment are waging competing campaigns to influence a final decision in April.The dispute also raises larger questions about whether lawmakers and regulators will revisit the fast-track pathway the drug was approved under, with the issue even entangling…Continue Reading
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U.S. research institutions and universities are gearing up to implement steps announced last month by the Biden administration to ensure that scientists seeking federal grants are not beholden to foreign governments or interests. The White House National Science and Technology Council issued a set of guidelines in January designed to ensure that scientists seeking federal grants do not…Continue Reading
Most of us only get to live one life. You establish yourself in one town, pursue a career in one field. For the partisans among us, you back just one party. Not Tom O’Halleran. The Chicago cop turned futures trader turned business consultant turned Arizona retiree turned state lawmaker turned radio host turned Democratic congressman has…Continue Reading
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