Bloomberg Energy Transfer Equity LP said that it was mobilizing equipment in preparation to drill the final portion of its controversial Dakota Access crude pipeline, even as an Obama administration official said no decision has been made on the project. The pipeline giant can’t actually drill the final piece of the oil line beneath Lake Oahe in North Dakota …

  Donald Trump, it seems, embraces the old dictum: Make no small plans. Already, he’s published an agenda for his first 100 days in office, recalling Franklin’s Roosevelt’s launching of the New Deal. Not surprisingly, near the top of Trump’s to-do list is a pledge to double economic growth from its recent desultory rate of 2 percent a year to …

  For many people, Donald Trump’s surprise election victory was a jolt to very idea that humans are rational creatures. It tore away the comfort of believing that science has rendered our world predictable. The upset led two New York Times reporters to question whether data science could be trusted in medicine and business. A Guardian columnist declared that big …