How Farouk al Kasim Saved Norway From Its Oil
After growing up watching the benefits of Iraqi oil elude the Iraqi people, a young executive insisted that Norway do things differently.
Meet the Flexians
A new professional class of movers and shakers—people who serve overlapping roles in government, business, and media with smiling finesse—is controlling the flow of power and money in America. The anthropologist Janine Wedel is bent on making us understand just how dangerous this new normal can be.
The Environmental Defense Fund Is Pissing Off Fellow Environmentalists
Has the large advocacy group allowed itself to be “co-opted by industry interests"?
Nikola Tesla Would Not Approve of Your Online Viewing Habits
Collectively, we've spent more than 50 years watching the Tesla vs. Thomas Edison rap smackdown that went viral on YouTube.
How the Trailer Park Could Save Us All
A healthy, inexpensive, environmentally friendly solution for housing millions of retiring baby boomers is staring us in the face. We just know it by a dirty name.
Guide to a Sizzling Planet
Not everyone is a pessimist when it comes to predicting the impact of climate change. Too bad the optimists aren’t nearly as convincing.
The Energy Debate We Aren’t Having
The energy boom has the nation mired in chatter about a burgeoning job market, or panicked over certain environmental destruction. Instead, we should be asking: To whom will go the spoils of this bonanza, and on whose shoulders will the risks fall?
Why We Should Drop the ‘Mad Max’ Metaphors
In Namibia, the filmmakers creating 'Mad Max: Fury Road' have run into a different kind of fury, and few roads.
The Formula
How an equation cooked up by Mussolini’s numbers guy came to define how we think about inequality—from Occupy Wall Street to the World Bank to the billionaires at Davos—and why it’s time to find a new way of looking at the numbers.
Mouse-Infest Destiny
Most of our homes are soaked in mouse urine. It’s at the core of our asthma epidemic—but it helps rodents stay connected.