Danish Plan

My persons of the year

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Time Magazine’s “Person of the Year” this year was a collective award: The Ebola Fighters...

Gigafactory 3: Tesla’s miracle in Shanghai

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OK, it’s been a lousy year — that much we can probably all agree on — so it would be cool if an old-fashioned,...

The list and who’s off it — first cut

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I don’t for a second doubt that any of the 22 candidates currently running for President — 17 Republicans and five Democrats — could run the country if they happened to get elected. This isn’t because they are political geniuses. It’s because the genius of the ...

The ‘Soldier of Fortune’ memoirs

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By 1975, Robert K. Brown had 1) ridden the rodeo, 2) been a Golden Gloves boxer, 3) raised money for and tried to run guns to Fidel Castro’s guerrillas while they were still in the jungle, 4) broken with Castro after he came to power and joined multiple abortive ...

The coming lithium wars: what we know

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We all know that we have only a mere 11 years to save the planet from the global warming apocalypse. We know this because...

Obama’s happy dance with Iran

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Obama is riding hell-bent for leather toward a nuclear deal with Iran which — if the leaked outlines of it are remotely accurate — will turn the United States into the principal enabler and legitimizer of Iran’s nuclear ambitions...

Another year, another record and COP25

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Another year, another record. That’s the headline on a press release issued last week by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) reporting that carbon dioxide levels...

The Donald is about to enter the oil patch

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Prediction: If you want to know where the Trump administration is headed, start by reviewing what’s been going on in the oil patch for...

The welcome sign and a case of libel

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“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?”                      — Donald...

Phoenix can see its future in Mexico (it’s not what you...

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On May 12, the planet’s atmosphere hit one of those “grim milestones” we hear so much about. According to data from the Mauna Loa Observatory...

Climate science — and why the world won’t listen

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The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued the executive summary of its latest report on global warming on Sept. 26. It stated, among other things, that hundreds of scientists are more certain than ever that the planet is warming up and that ...

Obama makes his bones, maybe

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Now that’s my kind of hope and change...