Opinion

Will the Supreme Court save the Republican Party from Donald Trump? Congress is finally starting to pick up the pace of its investigations into the events of January 6, and more broadly into the efforts by then-president Trump to subvert the 2020 election. A Senate committee has reported in detail on Trump’s efforts to improperly influence the Justice Department, and ...

Three times in the modern era, Japan has reacted to profound international shifts with a sweeping remake of its foreign policy — in ways that altered global history. The nation is now undergoing a leadership transition, as the job of prime minister passes from Yoshihide Suga to Fumio Kishida. This may seem like “more of the same,” as both men ...

Living with Covid-19 means embracing interest-rate increases. The more of the latter, the better. That’s the view from New Zealand, whose central bank proceeded on Wednesday with a widely anticipated hike in its benchmark rate to 0.5%, the first nudge higher in seven years. The Reserve Bank made it clear the move is unlikely to be the last. Inflation is ...

Bitcoin is a virtual currency with a very physical footprint in the form of the big, power-hungry facilities that have sprouted up to mine it. The size of this footprint and its impact on the environment have become a hotly contested issue: The network’s power consumption this year will likely be a whopping 91 terawatt-hours, roughly equivalent to Pakistan’s, according ...

Charif Souki, who founded the biggest US natural gas-export firm and now chairs another called Tellurian Inc, isn’t known for mincing words. And he didn’t disappoint when tackling the issue of methane emissions at a recent event hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies: In the upstream, methane leaks are inexcusable. They’re avoidable. The technology is available to ...

Should Walmart Inc merge with Home Depot Inc? There may be a container ship worth of reasons for them to consider it. Walmart and Home Depot are among US retailers that have grown so frustrated with the limited space on container ships and rising cost of ocean shipping that they’ve begun chartering their own vessels to speed the journey from ...

The first big data release from the 2020 Census in August contained some positive news about America’s biggest cities. The biggest of them, New York, turned out to have hundreds of thousands more people than the annual population estimates made by the Census Bureau had projected. Not one of the country’s 10 largest cities lost population between 2010 and 2020, ...

On June 26, the temperatures south of Portland, Oregon, approached 105 degrees Fahrenheit (40.6 degrees Celsius). That didn’t stop Sebastian Francisco Perez, a Guatemalan farm worker, from going to work moving irrigation lines at a nursery. At some point, as the scorching afternoon dragged on, he collapsed and died. When Occupational Safety and Health officials turned up to write a ...

In true Jupiterian style, French President Emmanuel Macron said nothing publicly when the Aukus debacle erupted, letting his ministers and European partners do the talking after Australia scrapped a $66 billion submarine deal with Paris in favour of an American-led alliance in the Indo-Pacific. Yet now that there’s a power vacuum opening up in Europe, as Germany’s Angela Merkel bows ...

The conventional wisdom is that politicians focus on the short term at the expense of the long term — that they’re obsessed with the latest polling and the next election instead of the future of the country and the next generation. That may be true, but still: President Joe Biden and congressional Democrats could use a healthy dose of short-term ...