Hard data: is Trump or Cruz more electable?
Mar 07, 2016 11:24 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
And so, Super Tuesday as well as Saturdays caucuses and primaries are behind us. If the rest of the primary season holds to this trend, it appears the battle for the presidency will be between Donald Trump and Hillary...
Mar 06, 2016 15:21 pm UTC| Politics
Every decent person looks on goggle eyed as Donald Trump continues his unlikely march to the Republican Party nomination. We are mesmerized by how he goes out of his way to flout every rule of political correctness, from...
Are Elections Ruining Democracy?
Mar 06, 2016 03:01 am UTC| Politics
The Flemish historian and writer David Van Reybrouck has recently triggered a minor sensation in the Low Countries by insisting that Western democracies are suffering so much election fatigue (electoral democracy is...
How Donald Trump broke the media
Mar 04, 2016 17:05 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
After Super Tuesday, print and broadcast media have woken up to the very real possibility of President Donald J. Trump. But they cant seem to understand that their own decline is a major reason for his success. Win or...
Presidential candidates offer sharp differences on the future of renewable energy
Mar 03, 2016 16:22 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
We are in the middle of a long-term global transition away from fossil fuels and toward more efficient, renewable-based energy systems. This shift will deliver many benefits, including jobs, reduced air pollution, lower...
Does it matter who wins the election when it comes to the Middle East?
Mar 03, 2016 16:17 pm UTC| Politics
Elections, the perennial wisdom tells us, are generally not decided by foreign policy issues. But whos to say that 2016 will not buck the trend, as it has in so many other ways? We are potentially only one...
How much can the next president influence the U.S. energy system?
Mar 03, 2016 16:13 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
There have been dramatic changes in the U.S. energy system under our current president a big drop in the use of coal, a boom in domestic oil and gas development from fracking, and the rapid spread of renewable...