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• Wed Dec 26 00:12:00 CST 2001 -- ECONOMIC STIMULUS FADES AS ECONOMIC PANIC SUBSIDES
  Partisan politics and an easing of panic stymied economic stimulus legislation in the US the week before Christmas.
• Fri Dec 14 00:12:00 CST 2001 -- OIL'S NEW GAME OF CHICKEN
  You need a scorecard to keep up with the game of chicken being played in the oil market.
• Fri Dec 07 00:12:00 CST 2001 -- A WEEK OF IMPORTANT TURNS IN MIDDLE EASTERN POLITICS
  Revulsion against terrorist murder realigned Middle Eastern politics this week in a series of developments with ramifications for the oil and gas industry.
• Fri Nov 30 00:11:00 CST 2001 -- US RIGHT TO RESIST TRIBUNALS-BUT USE THEM ANYWAY
  This week's surge in the dispute over military tribunals reflects American strength.
• Mon Nov 26 00:11:00 CST 2001 -- QUESTIONS ABOUT ENRON'S FINANCIAL BOOKS NOT NEW
  Enron Corp., once the darling in a new generation of energy companies, has not just crashed to the ground. It has bored a legal hole the depth of which no one yet knows.
• Fri Nov 16 00:11:00 CST 2001 -- OPEC SHOULD TRIM EXPORTS AND LET MARKETS DO THE REST
  The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries still has much to learn.
• Fri Nov 09 00:11:00 CST 2001 -- AN ACTOR, ANWR, AND THE TEAMSTERS
  Martin Sheen, the actor who plays US President Josiah Bartlett in the fictitious television series The West Wing, received a nifty dig this week from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.
• Fri Nov 02 00:11:00 CST 2001 -- MEXICAN OFFICIALS HINT AT THE UNMENTIONABLE
  They're discussing the unmentionable south of the Rio Grande.
• Fri Oct 26 00:10:00 CDT 2001 -- TELEVISION, MOVIES, AND ANTIGLOBALIZATION
  An important byproduct of the terrorist war will be the effect on antiglobalization politics. A measure of that effect is, as they say, coming soon to a theater near you.
• Fri Oct 19 00:10:00 CDT 2001 -- WORLD VIEWS CLASH OVER A REBUFFED GIFT
  World views collided this month when the mayor of New York City turned down a huge cash gift from a wealthy Saudi prince.
• Fri Oct 12 00:10:00 CDT 2001 -- ARABS SEE HIDDEN MOTIVES IN ANTITERRORIST WAR
  A striking lesson of this tense first month of the war against terrorism is how suspicious people from elsewhere can be of US motives.
• Fri Oct 05 00:10:00 CDT 2001 -- SECURITY ALERT: BAD REGULATION SABOTAGING REFINERIES
  Fear of terrorist attack has brought new attention to the security of US refineries and pipelines.
• Fri Sep 28 00:09:00 CDT 2001 -- IS BIG GOVERNMENT BACK?
  Federal spending following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 has inspired a few commentators to wonder whether big government is back.
• Fri Sep 21 00:09:00 CDT 2001 -- A TROUBLING INSTANCE OF ENVIRONMENTALIST OPPORTUNISM
  With troubling opportunism, the president of the National Resources Defense Council is using the Sept. 11 terrorist bombings to promote a senseless political agenda.
• Fri Sep 14 00:09:00 CDT 2001 -- WHAT THE TERRORISTS ARE AND ARE NOT
  At this writing, no one yet knew who commandeered four airliners loaded with passenters on Sept. 11 and crashed them into both of the World Trade Center towers in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, DC.
• Fri Sep 07 00:09:00 CDT 2001 -- CAN THE ENVIRONMENT SURVIVE ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS?
  Among the world's most challenging environmental problems is the deplorable state of political discussion about environmental issues.
• Fri Aug 31 00:08:00 CDT 2001 -- GOV. BROWNOUT FOLLOWS FOOTSTEPS OF GOV. MOONBEAM
  California Gov. Gray Davis seems determined to follow a predecessor and fellow Democrat, Edmund G. (Jerry) Brown Jr., into moonbeam oblivion.
• Fri Aug 24 00:08:00 CDT 2001 -- BUDGET PANIC CLOUDS ENERGY POLICY OUTLOOK
  News of a shrinking federal budget has touched off a ridiculous round of hysteria in the US that could hurt producers of oil and natural gas.
• Fri Aug 17 00:08:00 CDT 2001 -- WASHINGTON BRACES FOR GLOBALIZATION GRUMPS
  Every organization has its grumps: complainers richly articulate about group imperfection but sketchy on the subject of reasonable alternatives.
• Fri Aug 10 00:08:00 CDT 2001 -- GROUP AIMS TO PROVE REPUBLICANS CARE ABOUT ENVIRONMENT
  That environmental politics in the US has degenerated into a righteousness contest is made clear by a group festering in the Republican Party.