In May, President Barack Obama delivered the commencement speech to the graduating cadets of the United States Military Academy at West Point. In his remarks, he explained that his foreign policy philosophy isn’t isolationist, despite having avowed two years earlier that the US should

Just a few decades ago, fracking was fringe science.  In fact, there was a lot of skepticism about whether it could ever work.  But in the 1970s, two entities joined together to risk big money on what many considered a pipe dream: the O&G industry and good ol’ Uncle Sam. Now that

He’s the lion in winter.  He’s a voice of conscience.  And he’s ready to put up his dukes and spar a few rounds with gridlocked Congressmen who have pushed the leadership debate in Washington DC to a fractious no-exit. Leon Panetta, 23rd US Secretary of Defense (2011-2013) and f

June 11: WSJ Downplays Russia-China Gas Deal, Gives US Shale Thumb’s Up An Op Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal by global political expert and author Joseph S. Nye Jr. posits that the long-hyped $400 billion deal signed last month that will send 38 billion cubic meters of natural ga

You might call the public debate on fracking “a moral panic.” When it comes to questions of the environment vs. fossil fuels (especially shale development), New York City, Colorado, California, England, France, Bulgaria, and South Africa are becoming epicenters of public anxiety and p