PG&E continues its sacred duty of keeping the lights on (and the bills skyrocketing) for roughly 16 million hapless souls across 70,000 square miles of northern and central California.
The Permian Basin is one of the largest oil and gas regions in the world, and that productivity has become its own problem. Natural gas is arriving at the Waha Hub in West Texas faster than existing infrastructure can move it, creating periodic pricing collapses and exposing the simple truth that supply without predictable demand […]
Having secured seven Republican signatures on their discharge petition, Democratic lawmakers just secured an imminent vote on the Faster Labor Contracts Act — a union leaders’ pipedream that was considered too radical to pass Congress even under the Obama-era Democratic supermajority. This legislation would allow unelected, uninformed federal bureaucrats to set the terms of union […]
The United States is more energy-dominant than ever before. We lead the world in oil and gas production, producing more than at any other time in history. Yet the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz proves that energy dominance doesn’t protect us entirely from global shocks. The ultimate energy dominance is energy sovereignty, which requires […]
Three seemingly unrelated headlines dominated the news in recent weeks: NBA star Brandon Clarke passed away, the family of a teenager who died from a drug overdose after prompting by ChatGPT sued OpenAI, and the resignation of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary. But, there’s a disturbing thread that ties these disconnected stories together: Kratom — a […]
The food stamp program was born during the Great Depression as an emergency mechanism to get basic staple foods to families facing widespread hardship. The mission was simple: put real food on the table for people who couldn’t afford it. Ninety years later, the program looks almost nothing like that. Today, food stamps can be […]
The following is an installment of “On This Day,” a series celebrating America’s 250th anniversary by following the actions of Gen. George Washington, the Continental Congress, and the men and women whose bravery and sacrifice led up to the signing of the Declaration of Independence. May 28, 1776 Gen. George Washington is in Philadelphia. He […]
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has restricted the flow of energy to global markets, severely impacting oil prices. As a direct result of rising oil prices, gas prices have also risen worldwide, including in the United States. Although the average prices of gas and diesel have risen in the U.S. to $4.51 per […]
The prevailing climate change narrative took a big hit in recent days, as scientists who comprise the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change are backing away from more outlandish climate predictions for the 21st century. Extreme forecasts of rising temperatures of 4 to 5 degrees, the scientists wrote in the journal Geoscientific Model Development, […]
As the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee prepares to advance a new surface transportation reauthorization bill, Congress faces a consequential question: Are we prepared to invest in infrastructure not only as an economic necessity, but as a pillar of U.S. national security? For those of us representing America’s territories, particularly in the Indo-Pacific, the answer […]
Seattle has built an ecosystem where militant progressive activists can repeatedly manufacture “emergencies,” then claim to be able to solve them with public money.
Ever since World War II, Europe has been reliant on the United States for everything from its defense to its healthcare. President Donald Trump is now signaling that this era of dependence is over. Technically, Trump has been telegraphing this since his very first presidential campaign, when he declared that other countries need to stop […]
