Is America in the Grip of a Foreign Power?

Katrina vanden Heuvel is editor and publisher of The Nation, America’s leading source of progressive politics and culture. An expert on international affairs and US politics, she is an award-winning columnist and frequent contributor to The Guardian. Vanden Heuvel is the author of several books, including The Change I Believe In: Fighting for Progress in…

Egypt explores modern drilling to cut oil and gas costs

Egypt is advancing technical and economic studies to apply horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing across petroleum and gas fields, aiming to boost production and reduce operating expenses. The initiative follows discussions between Petroleum Minister Karim Badawy and a senior Halliburton delegation led by Ahmed Helmy, Vice President for North Africa. Badawy emphasised that maximising Egypt’s…

Nonprofit sues U.S. as it pushes to auction massive tracks of water around American Samoa

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A legal environmental group sued the U.S. government on Tuesday to halt the Trump administration’s plans announced last month to auction off massive sections of water surrounding American Samoa for potential deep-sea mining. Earthjustice filed the federal lawsuit against the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard…

Nonprofit sues U.S. as it pushes to auction massive tracks of water around American Samoa

Trump set to nominate Heidi Overton to be FDA commissioner

Lizzy led STAT’s coverage of the FDA. Her stories explore the relationship between politics and science at the FDA, industry influence, and the agency’s ability to protect and promote public health. Daniel covers the intersection of the health industry and the federal government. He reports on corporate influence in government, the health consequences of federal…

Trump set to nominate Heidi Overton to be FDA commissioner

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Lonely Voice of Ted Postol

For more than three decades, Theodore Postol, a physicist and professor emeritus at MIT, has been an unusually persistent critic of U.S. missile-defense programs. A former scientific adviser to the Chief of Naval Operations and analyst at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, Postol possesses precisely the technical credentials one might expect the defense establishment…

Coffee Break: Armed Madhouse – The Lonely Voice of Ted Postol

Donald Trump and Jimmy Kimmel’s Feud: A Timeline

Donald Trump has many enemies. The ayatollahs of Iran, Democratic politicians across America, windmills, and the phrase “Is Pepsi OK?” — to name a few. But no feud seems to brew more consistent passion within the commander in chief than his vendetta against late-night comedy, particularly against ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel.  It’s easy to forget that…