The incoming Biden administration has made climate change a signature issue, deeming its importance on par with the COVID-19 recovery and racial inequality. According to the Biden transition website, climate change poses an existential threat to our environment, our health, our…

The #ExxonKnew saga has been brought back to prominence this month by an article in IOP Science from ExxonMobil’s Vice President of Research and Development Dr. Vijay Swarup. To refresh your memory, the #ExxonKnew campaign asserts that the energy company…

With the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines in limbo and the Atlantic Coast pipeline’s recent defunding-under-pressure, the ability of energy companies to deliver North American fuels to market is being challenged like never before. Pipeline antipathy now even emanates…

A recent spate of court rulings and corporate decisions has commentators asking if the age of the pipeline has come to an end. On July 6, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively halted Keystone XL by denying it the ability to…

During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, the Communist Party of China (CCP) deployed the weapon of compelled self-abasement to devastating effect. In the practice, rendered in English as the “Struggle Session,” enemies of the party, real or imagined, were…

“We immerse ourselves in the lifestyle of our host country. They corrupt it … “We sip Val di Suga. They slurp Aperol Spritz … “We contemplate Berthe Morisot at the Musée d’Orsay. They giggle while they pretend to prick their…