Good luck finding an industry hit as hard by the inflation and supply-chain upheaval as wind-turbine makers. Manufacturers like Vestas Wind Systems have been blown off course by a perfect storm of transport snarl-ups and surging freight and raw material costs. Instead of raking in profits on soaring demand for clean energy, the Danish firm is struggling just to ...

How to respond to climate change is often postulated as the central question of our time, and while that’s undeniably important, I have another nomination: How will we stop our new and often splendid technologies from being weaponised against us? I use the term weaponisation quite literally — drone attacks, cyberattacks, hostile uses of artificial intelligence, and attacks from space, ...

  The nationwide truckers’ protest in Canada, known as the “Freedom Convoy” and centered in Ottawa, reflects so many global trends that it’s hard to say what it means. But the movement may well end up as the most consequential story of the year. Under one plausible reading, many Canadians are exhausted by their government’s pandemic restrictions. The protests started ...