Bloomberg In the north of England about 450 engineers are toiling away to build a new large gas plant. It could be one of Britain’s last. SSE’s 840-megawatt Keadby plant is the latest gas plant under construction in the UK. At the start of June a gas turbine weighing as much as an Airbus A-380 arrived on-site from Germany, keeping ...

America’s botched response to the coronavirus pandemic is a warning that, unless our broken political and administrative systems are fixed, the country could experience a similar breakdown in future national crises, such as a massive cyberattack. This stark message was contained in a little-noticed white paper recently released by the bipartisan Cyberspace Solarium Commission, titled “Cybersecurity Lessons from the Pandemic.” ...

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote on statehood for Washington, DC They’re doing this, as is clearly allowed by the Constitution, as simple legislation: The bill would shrink the constitutionally mandated federal district to include just the federal government buildings and monuments, while putting all the district’s residents into the 51st state. It’s a good idea. While it ...