William Tucker

This week President Obama handed down what may prove to be one of the most fateful decisions of his entire administration when he rejected the plan to build the Keystone XL Pipeline carrying oil from the tar sands of Canada…

Peering ahead at the worst possible outcomes of Obamacare five years from now, imagine that individuals were being fined by the Department of Health and Human Services for failing to buy health insurance — even though insurance companies have withdrawn…

There’s something about solar energy that turns otherwise intelligent brains to mush. Paul Krugman, the celebrated Nobel Prize-winning economist, has now joined the crowd. In an op-ed last week entitled “Here Comes the Sun,” Krugman invoked Moore’s Law, of Silicon…

The New York Times is proving that, when it comes to nuclear power, it isn’t a one-note newspaper. Not every anti-nuclear story has to be written by Matt Wald. The paper has versatility — this time reporters Jo Becker and…

People think that Fukushima will mean the end of nuclear power, but I’m convinced it’s the opposite. We’re going to lose our nuclear virginity over this accident and start seeing the world as adults. In fact it’s already happening. Exhibit…

Griz Deal had been Entrepreneur in Residence at the Los Alamos Laboratory for only six months when he saw something he liked. “I had been thinking in terms of taking some technology for sterilizing food with radiation,” he says, sitting…

James O’Keefe’s NPR sting has to be one of the most beautifully orchestrated deceptions in the annals of journalism. I think the academy award for performance in a documentary should go to that bushy-bearded “Arab” who, on hearing NPR executive…

In Jules Verne’s brilliant Journey from the Earth to the Moon, a group of old artillery officers meet after the Civil War to try to figure out what to do with their now outmoded skills. “There was hardly a full…

Big news! Glenn Beck has discovered the 1960s writings of Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the husband-and-wife team that gave birth to the Welfare Rights Movement and plotted the bankruptcy of the federal government. Cloward died in 2001 but…

You know things are moving in the right direction when the New Yorker feels compelled to write an article taking note of The Constitution. This week Jill Lepore rushes into the breach with a 5,000-word musing entitled “The Commandments,” mostly…