Boondoggles

While having some of the wobbliest finances in Europe, here’s how a Spanish county built an airport nobody—except one lucky politician—wanted.

Big money, big energy and big environmentalism join forces to support big solar energy projects on federal land in the Southwest. But could these "green" projects actually be anti-environmental boondoggles in the making?

John McCain and Tom Coburn's snarky listing of reputedly dumb stimulus projects manages to 'misunderestimate' some important research.

A reader wonders whether Port of Anchorage project has earmarks of a boondoggle.

As seen in our main story on a cure for billion-dollar cost overruns, here's a look at some infamous public works projects and what went wrong.

A Danish professor promotes a cure for billion-dollar cost overruns in government megaprojects: Use past boondoggles as a baseline.